Smeagol, despite being from a hobbit-like culture, is unaware of the existence of taters, a common food. This implies that transoceanic contact occured between the Shire and the New World sometime between 2400-3019 (Third Age). In this essay, I will
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What if also he just forgot since his hobitism? (Humanity) had been gone for so long
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These would be my presumptions--both the substitution and the forgetting--for a more serious post, def.
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But the elves are noted seafarers, and hobbits certainly retain a residual if oft deprecated knowledge of boat building. No reason to deny pre morgothian cataclysm intercontinental trade.
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Maybe hobbits tabooed boats AND resolved to stay at home after returning with tales of tzompantli


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Oh man, he does in one of the appendices, doesn't he? Viking hobbits confirmed.
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mugwort?
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This reminds me that Tolkien did an editing pass on the first chapter of _The Hobbit_ to remove all the new world foods from Bilbo's pantry.
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