Lord of the Rings fans know the stoors all too well – the Hobbit-like race whose members include Smeagol, the stoor who would be transformed into the decrepit Gollum by the evil of the One Ring.

However, Gollum, the most affected character, is only shown wearing the Ring once in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He only holds his Precious after discovering ...

Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin dubbed the hobbit, lived for hundreds of thousands of years on a remote Indonesian island. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Many people wondered how you could do a Lord of the Rings prequel without Hobbits, and the answer Amazon found—from Tolkien’s own vast worldbuilding—was in the form of Hobbit predecessors. Rings of ...

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a "hobbit" who lived around 700,000 years ago.

A hobbit-size species of ancient human that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores until about 50,000 years ago baffles scientists in several ways. First unearthed in a startling discovery ...

With its miniature body and brain and relatively big feet, H. floresiensis came to be known as the hobbit. Scientists have long puzzled over how the hobbit evolved its peculiar proportions.

But Hart’s scaled-back, semi-immersive, hobbit-centric version was received well by audiences and critics—so well that Chicago Shakespeare Theater has engaged Hart to stage the U.S. premiere ...

Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet tall, earning them the nickname "hobbits." Now a new study suggests ...

There, they’ll meet some distant cousins. These are the stoors, who predate the hobbit-adjacent riverfolk. Unlike the harfoots, the stoors are not nomadic. “The stoors’ ancestry at some point was ...