>The diminutive Whittaker goes on to note, correctly, that Tolkien admitted that he didn't come up with the term.
This is not accurate, so far as I know, and in the article itself Whittaker only vaguely says "it was used before"… I am not familiar with any prior use of the word "hobbit" than in the works of Tolkien. Can you cite a source for this claim?/div>
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This is not accurate, so far as I know, and in the article itself Whittaker only vaguely says "it was used before"… I am not familiar with any prior use of the word "hobbit" than in the works of Tolkien. Can you cite a source for this claim?/div>
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