User blog comment:Gott wisst/Hypothesis about why B. J. is wrong about J. R. R. Tolkien/@comment-1031927-20090423234721

No, he invented ALL of it, and he invented Hobbits.

When he was grading papers, he randomly wrote "In a hole in a ground there lived a hobbit." That was in 193- something. If you find anything with the word hobbit on it date before that, please tell me.