Hobbit
[ˈhɒbɪt]Meaning
a fictional race of people in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels
Background Story
Hobbits first appeared in the 1937 children's novel The Hobbit. The origins of the name and idea of "Hobbits" have been debated; literary antecedents include Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt and Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 The Marvellous Land of Snergs. The word "hobbit" also appears in a list of ghostly beings in The Denham Tracts.
