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Fellow hobbits “Sam, Merry and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure” while a new generation seeks to unearth a “long-buried secret.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Colbert is planning to adapt chapters three to eight of The Fellowship of the Ring, in which Frodo and his fellow hobbits begin their epic quest.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

However, Homo sapiens were moving through the Indonesian archipelago around the same time the hobbits disappeared.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

But the three in the back had better be hobbits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

‘It’s tomorrow,’ said Gollum, ‘or this was tomorrow when hobbits went to sleep. Very foolish, very dangerous — if poor Sméagol wasn’t sneaking about to watch.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien