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Hi! I just wanted to ask, since you’ve done a lot on dwarven aging, what do you think about hobbit aging?

Hey there! Lovely to hear from you!

Luckily, there’s HEAPS of info here. Tolkien loved his fussy little Hobbitses, and gave them plenty of attention (unlike Dwarves, I am not bitter I am bitter). So all this here? Is canon.

Hobbits age slowly, in comparison to Men. They come of age at 33 years old.

The period of their twenties is a wild and heady, irresponsible sort of time, known as the ‘tweens.’ 

For reference, during LOTR? Pippin is 29. (Yes, he’s not even an adult!!!) Frodo was meant to be a particularly rambunctious tween, who loved to steal Farmer Maggot’s mushrooms. 

50 is literally their middle-age, as the average Hobbit’s lifespan is around 100 years old. 

Bilbo is a VERY exceptional hobbit. He says at one point that his aim is to live longer than the Old Took, his grandfather Gerontius, who made it to 130 – and thanks to the Ring (and probably his own innate stubbornness) he made it to 131, before leaving for Aman where he would have eventually passed away. 

Just finished my weeks-long project of reading Sansûkh again, because it brings me joy. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed the watchers one-by-one figuring out Legolas and Gimli! And I’d forgotten how much your Radagast voice inspired me. And finally, I’d forgotten how awesome Merry and Pippin are! And now I get to remember all over again. :) And I have a question: are you planning to write their homecoming to the Shire? Because I would dearly love to see the Shire respond to them.

Oh you are so kind, thank you SO much! *blushes and stammers and fidgets*

Ooooh yes – I am actually planning to write the Scouring of the Shire! And Merry and Pippin are basically Hobbit Generals in that. Should make for some stunned-mullet faces from those who remember them only as a pair of ragamuffin troublemakers!

Just had a cute HC: Boromir survives the quest, and at the end he goes to Hobbiton to visit the hobbits every so often once they’re back home. Him with Sam and Rosie’s kids. All wide-eyed and ‘OMG what is this tiny small thing, I do not remember Faramir being this small’, holding a newborn baby hobbit because he’s a friend to all Hobbits thanks to what Pippin and the others said about him. Hobbit kids clinging to his legs and asking why his feet are so tiny.