The Hobbit Persuasive Essay

Today when we hear the word “hobbit”, most people think of the famous story about Bilbo Baggins. They once roamed the earth that we live on today: “The hobbit mystery was sparked by the 2004 discovery of bones on Flores that belonged to a three-foot-tall (one-meter-tall), 55-pound (25-kilogram) female with a grapefruit-size brain… persisted on the remote island until about 18,000 years ago, even as "modern" humans spread around the world, experts say” (Roach). This discovery was not the only one questioned about being “hobbit-like”. When this body was found researchers first thought that they had discovered a young child’s body, but later admitted that “hobbit-like creatures” once lived on the earth based off of the evidence they found. “The top of a skull appeared next, followed by the jaw, pelvis, and a set of leg bones still joined together—almost the entire skeleton of Hobbit” (National Geographic). Hobbits were once alive and became extinct from other species that colonized around where they were living and took most of their resources. The hobbits died off and the other species lived a little bit longer until they eventually died off as well (Roach). The word hobbit was used before Tolkien used it in his fictional novel widely known today. The

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