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An Indiana man planned one Hobbit house; seven years later, he had built an 11-building fantasy village from recycled and secondhand materials
The Times of India 2026-09-30, 08:15Rick Sparks never intended to build a village. The Tolkien fan originally planned a single Hobbit-inspired...
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Inside the Hobbit-inspired village in Connersville
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette 2026-09-26, 13:40J.R.R. Tolkien fan Rick Sparks has built an 11-building fantasy village called Rackshire just outside...
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Hot Ticket: Shrimp, hobbits and hot rods take over the weekend
The Galveston Daily News 2026-09-25, 11:05Shrimply irresistible: Bring your appetite downtown this weekend as the 17th Annual Galveston Island Shrimp...
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In 1937, JRR Tolkien began The Hobbit after writing a sentence about a hobbit on a blank exam paper: How one random line became a fantasy classic
The Times of India 2026-09-24, 06:04Before Bilbo Baggins had a front door, before there was a Shire, a dragon named Smaug, or a terrifying...
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Hobbit-inspired village to draw visitors for festival in Connersville
The Herald Bulletin 2026-09-24, 04:06CONNERSVILLE — Rick Sparks never intended to build a village. ......
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Take a look inside the Hobbit-inspired village in Connersville
Kokomo Tribune 2026-09-23, 17:31CONNERSVILLE — Rick Sparks never intended to build a village. ......
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The Hobbit is not a great book
The Spectator 2026-09-21, 07:10The Hobbit was published on this day in 1937. It is a book I treasure, and not one of the world’s great books....
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Hobbits were onto something with second breakfast, and so is most of the world
Princeton Daily Clarion 2026-09-19, 21:18The hobbits of Middle-earth eat their way from breakfast through supper, treating food as one of life’s great...
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Look inside Ohio's real-life 'Hobbit House,' now selling for $850,000
Mansfield News Journal 2026-08-24, 12:00Louisville lands among nation’s hottest ZIP codes A Stark County ZIP code ranks as one of the hottest housing...
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Could the 'Hobbit' human species still exist? New theory revives debate over Homo floresiensis
The Times of India 2026-07-13, 11:34A strange theory has reopened one of anthropology’s most fascinating questions: could a tiny, human-like...
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'The story isn't over': The owner of a burned hobbit-themed Airbnb is dreaming of rebuilding
The Oregonian 2026-07-11, 15:40A popular, hobbit-themed Airbnb is among dozens of structures that were destroyed in a central Washington...
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The real-life 'Hobbits' survived on an Indonesian island for thousands of years, until a long drought may have drove them away
The Times of India 2026-07-11, 01:49For more than a million years, a small ancient human relative survived quietly on the volcanic island of...
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Slog AM: Another Bad Day for Boeing, the Hobbit Inn near Lake Chelan Is Now ...
The Stranger 2026-07-10, 18:01Standard Ryanair Flight: A Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki, Greece to Memmingen, Germany had to make an...
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Flores Hobbits' eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past
Ars Technica 2026-07-10, 00:59Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits...
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Quote of the Day by the father of modern fantasy J.R.R. Tolkien: 'It's the job that's never started as takes longest to...'- Inspiring lessons on productivity and the paralysing nature of procrastination by The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings author
The Times of India 2026-07-09, 13:33Quote of the Day by J.R.R. Tolkien: J.R.R. Tolkien's quote...
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‘It’s a total loss’: The Hobbit Inn destroyed in the Chelan Hills fire
The Spokesman-Review 2026-07-08, 03:41Hobbit fans had a home away from the Shire in central Washington. No longer . The Chelan Hills fire wiped The...
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These tiny ancient 'hobbits' weren't fearless hunters after all; scientists say they likely survived by eating what Komodo dragons left behind
The Times of India 2026-07-07, 14:12Human evolution includes a diminutive species of ancient humans discovered on a remote Indonesian island. When...
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Ancient hobbit-like humans may have survived on meat left behind by Komodo dragons
Phys Dot Org 2026-07-06, 16:43Arguably one of the most curious ancient human relatives is Homo floresiensis, a 3-foot-tall species that...
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Hobbit-like Humans May Have Scavenged Komodo Dragons' Leftovers to Survive
Slashdot 2026-07-05, 10:47CNN reports: Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed "hobbits" due to their short stature, may have been...
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Here’s How This ‘Hobbit’-Like Human Ancestor Survived on an Island with Komodo Dragons
Gizmodo 2026-07-04, 19:11Researchers working with the Smithsonian pored over 10,061 artifacts and other elements to determine whether...
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Did 'hobbit' human species ever hunt or use fire? New study challenges long-held assumptions
The News International 2026-07-04, 09:04The study showed significant implications for human evolution A new research study has challenged the...
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Hobbit-like humans may have scavenged Komodo dragons’ leftovers to survive
CTV 2026-07-03, 19:47The study adds to growing...
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Extinct "Hobbits" Probably Lived Off What Komodo Dragons Left Behind, Suggesting They Weren’t As Smart As We Thought
IFL Science 2026-07-03, 19:42Homo floresiensis, an extinct species of small archaic humans popularly known as hobbits, wasn't as...