Can humans and Hobbits mate?

By that standard, perhaps, hobbits are humans—just short ones. On the other hand, perhaps the existence of occasional half-elvish children is a magical phenomenon, and despite the even closer human-hobbit genetic relationship, no interbreeding is possible under natural conditions.
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Can dwarves and humans mate?

Dwarves were one of the first races and humans have held the Armlet of Strength. Therefore half-dwarves are capable of interbreeding with humans and continuing to produce children. Breeding with dwarves is usually unsuccessful and results in sterile half-dwarves .
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Can a dwarf and an elf mate LOTR?

Ecology. Half-dwarves were usually the result of a dwarf mating with a human, gnome, elf, or halfling. The offspring of a dwarf and an elf was known as a "dwelf" (which was pluralized to "dwelves"). The fertility and offspring of half-dwarves was similar to that of half-elves.
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Are hobbits humans or Elves?

The beginning of Hobbits lies far back in the Elder Days that are now lost and forgotten. The Hobbits are, of course, really meant to be a branch of the specifically *human* race (not Elves or Dwarves) - hence the two kinds can dwell together (as at Bree), and are called just the Big Folk and Little Folk.
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Are there black hobbits?

No. There is no indication of black hobbits in the Tolkien Legendarium.
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Do hobbits exist?

“Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today,” Tolkien wrote. It is fun to imagine a few Homo floresiensis still surviving today in the remote jungles of an Indonesian island. Sadly, that's probably just as fantastic as anything in Tolkien's novels.
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How long are elves pregnant for?

Elves' pregnancy lasts for two years. Most elf-maidens don't make it through 2 years thus less children. Twins are more common in Elves than in humans.
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How long are Tolkien elves pregnant?

Elves, at least the Eldar, have a pregnancy that lasts about a year. By the age of 1, elves can speak, walk and dance.
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Can humans and halflings mate?

There is one interesting exception, humans and halflings. While they are fertile with each other, such a pairing will only produce one or the other race. This may be because they are so similar that there can be no half breed race.
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How old are hobbits in human years?

Hobbits can sometimes live for up to one hundred and thirty years, although their average life expectancy is one hundred years. The time at which a young Hobbit "comes of age" is thirty-three. Thus, a fifty-year-old Hobbit would only look 26–30 years by human standards.
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Are there any half Hobbits?

In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien occasionally used the term "halfling" to describe hobbits, since they are beings that are half the height of men. For instance, when the hobbit Pippin Took appears in a royal guard's uniform in Minas Tirith, the people of that city call him the "Prince of Halflings".
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What are Hobbits a cross between?

Hobbits are said to have originated in the valley of Anduin, between Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains. They are related to the race of Man, although their genealogical records concerning this were lost. There were three types of Hobbit-kind: the Harfoots, Stoors and Fallohides.
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Can half-elves reproduce?

Half-elves may mate and breed, but will always produce the offspring of the other parent (a Half-elf/elf pairing will produce elven children, while a Half elf/human pairing will result in human children).
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Do elves get periods?

((EDIT: Although ti's very possible - even likely, that menstruation wasn't actually a monthly cycle. Elves rarely even counted in years (preferring centuries), let alone months.)) So, long story short, I'm pretty confident that elves do menstruate.
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Do elves only fall in love once?

Elves marry only once (with only one known, very special, exception), but there's no rule about them loving only once. For example, Finwe loved Miriel, and then he loved Indis.
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How old can a elf live?

An elf reaches adulthood at about 110 years of age and can live to be more than 700 years old.
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Are elves real?

From a scientific viewpoint, elves are not considered objectively real. However, elves have in many times and places been believed to be real beings.
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Is an elf male or female?

Elves are described as being fair, graceful, and generally having characteristics more attributed to females. They also lack certain masculine qualities like facial hair. They are supposed to appear feminine.
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Can elves get drunk?

Well, the Hobbit shows that Elves can certainly get themselves drunk. They can also be killed by poison, so presumably an Elf could theoretically drink themselves to death. However, they would be unlikely to suffer much from the long term physiological effects of drinking.
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How tall is a real hobbit?

The now-extinct humans — known scientifically as Homo floresiensis, and popularly as the hobbits — stood less than 4 feet tall, with brains one third the size of living people.
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How did hobbits go extinct?

Researchers discovered that there was a "major shift" in the paleoecology and the subsequent behavior of the hobbits. Most notably, they found a huge volcanic eruption that took place around 50,000 years ago coincided with the disappearance of H.
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Do other species of humans exist?

Homo sapiens is currently the only member of the genus Homo alive. There's only one species of human—but it wasn't always so.
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