JRR Tolkien's book The Hobbit starts with that line.
actually JRR Tolkien published only LOTR and the Hobbits as a beginning of the story but he was planning the world middlearth since he was at university. after he died his son took all the writings and published them. Silmarillion and the other books contains the whole partitions that JRR decided to put in the story. but the other parts and ideas that not decided to put in the story still exists. the unfinished tales contains this stories and ideas. if you read this tales you can understand that they are 'unfinished' and not overlap the whole story.
Specifically hobbit-hole is the common word for them but Tolkien also calls them smials. JRR Tolkien explains it in the Prologue Concering Hobbits of The Fellowship of the Ring and Appendix F On Translations in The Return of the King. It's a word he invented based on an Old English word. In the world Tolkien has created, the word is translated to English by Tolkien so we can understand it. The Hobbitish word he translated is tran which is related to the Rohirric word trahan meaning burrow.
He finished writing it because the publisher of The Hobbit pushed him to finish another book so they could print it.
The Silmarillion
No they are not. Hobbits are a creation of fiction from the mind of JRR Tolkien. Homonid is the Latin name for great apes.
Four of J.R.R. contemporaries are/were Robert E. Howard, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs and to a certain degree, H.P. Lovecraft.
Because they were smaller then current human beings and the recent release of the Lord of the Rings movies made it a natural connection. It is a tribute to JRR Tolkien that his creatures of imagination were used to name these fossils.
The stories were written by JRR Tolkien. He wrote stories about a mythical fantasy world called Middle Earth and had worked out languages and a full history.
JRR Tolkien's book The Hobbit starts with that line.
actually JRR Tolkien published only LOTR and the Hobbits as a beginning of the story but he was planning the world middlearth since he was at university. after he died his son took all the writings and published them. Silmarillion and the other books contains the whole partitions that JRR decided to put in the story. but the other parts and ideas that not decided to put in the story still exists. the unfinished tales contains this stories and ideas. if you read this tales you can understand that they are 'unfinished' and not overlap the whole story.
Lord of the Rings was a series of three books.
His main hobby was probably the creation of Middle Earth and its languages and it occupied most of the time not taken by his work as a University lecturer and his family. Beyond his writing his main hobby was probably painting and drawing, Some editions of "The Hobbit" use his illustrations and more of his drawings are published in a book called "JRR Tolkien Artist and Illustrator" ed,Hammond and Scull. He played Rugby Football at school.
The "JRR" in JRR Tolkien stands for John Ronald Reuel, which are the author's full first name and two middle names.
JRR Tolkien is not in The Hobbit, he is the author of the book. He does a bit of narration in some places, a sort of aside. Tolkien is English and was born in South Africa.
There is no record of JRR Tolkien visiting Malawi. Tolkien was primarily known for his involvement in creating the Middle-earth universe and his professional career as a philologist and author in the United Kingdom.
JRR Tolkien is a renowned author known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He also wrote the Children of Hurin and The Simmilarion.