ACTUAL REAL LIVE HOBBITS DISCOVERED IN INDONESIA!!!:
ok they are not live, they lived there “at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world”, as the BBC rather weirdly puts it (ahem if the world is our colony where are we supposed to have come from?)
In fact b4 it achieves the realms of sensible wild speculation, the BBC’s report ploughs through a whole other slightly insane graf : viz “The fact that little people feature in the legends of modern Flores islanders suggests we might have to take tales of Bigfoot and the Yeti more seriously.” Or do they mean Littlefoot? Anyway National Geographic has a painting of a hobbit w.shillalegh and fetching off-the-shoulder water rat!!
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(cover ‘ nature; hobbit portrait ‘ national geographic)