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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Replying to @kendrictonn
so, elfwife is deep into this stuff the conventional take among Tolkien scholars is that the Hobbit and LOTR and retellings, with some artistic license, of much older stories, and whenever the literal word "potato" is seen, it likely stands for some other tuber, maybe turnip
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Replying to @MorlockP @kendrictonn
similarly with pipeweed - not New World tobacco, but something else unknown
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Replying to @MorlockP @kendrictonn
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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Replying to @Cary_Bleasdale @MorlockP
Maybe hobbits tabooed boats AND resolved to stay at home after returning with tales of tzompantli

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Replying to @kendrictonn @MorlockP
The virgin "hobbits lost seafaring" vs the Chad "LOTR is pre-Columbian American history"
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