[radio_weiss]

The Hobbits are, of course, really meant to be a branch of the specifically human race (not Elves or Dwarves) - hence the two kinds can dwell together (as at Bree), and are called just the Big Folk and Little Folk.
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П 318
...my 'hobbits' were in any case of wholly dissimilar sort, a diminutive branch of the human race.