Where did humans come from in Lord of the Rings?

Origins. The race of Men was the second significant race of beings created by the supreme God, Ilúvatar, since they awoke at the start of the First Age, at the first rising of the Sun (FA 1), while the elves awoke three Ages before them. They were called the “Afterborn” (Quenya Atani, Sindarin: Edain) by the Elves.

Are Hobbits humans?

They named her Homo floresiensis and nicknamed her the “Hobbit,” after the diminutive villagers from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. That fits a theory that Hobbits are less closely related to Homo sapiens than to Homo erectus—the human ancestor that is thought to have died out 100,000 years ago.

Do humans exist in Lord of the Rings?

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth fiction, Man and Men denote humans, whether male or female, in contrast to Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and other humanoid races. Tolkien uses the Men of Middle-earth, interacting with immortal Elves, to explore a variety of themes in The Lord of the Rings, especially death and immortality.

Are Hobbits half elf half human?

Tolkien is saying here that there were two human–elf pairings in the backstory to the Lord of the Rings. One between Lúthien and Beren and another between Idril and Tuor. Both Arwen and Aragorn are descendants of one of these pairings. By that standard, perhaps, hobbits are humans—just short ones.