Kedamono sends this in: “Just a funny thought, though the title implies that the writer owned those Hobbits. Merry and Pippin would like a word with them behind the shed about that.”
Primary season coming up.
Kedamono sends in this OY / Ewww
Saturday Morning OYs February 21, 2026
Comics I Don't Understand 
Of course, the Roanoke colonists did leave a forwarding address (the known-at-the-time Krotoan community), and no one thought it was at all mysterious until centuries later, when someone decided to gin it up as a Big Mystery.
As for the 7 Hobbits, there’s this fan theory that at some point Gandalf sired children with a particularly ambitious Took lass, hence his continuing interest in the Tooks and Took-adjacent Hobbits…just looking after his descendants.