The Silmarillion is pretty direct in explaining the origins of four of the free peoples of Middle Earth (elves, men, dwarves, and ents) and even many of the other sentient creatures in Middle Earth like the eagles, orcs, wizards, valar, maiar, dragons, and balrogs.
But nowhere in Tolkien’s writing that I know of does it ever say the origins of hobbits which is odd considering they’re such a large roll in the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Does anyone know anything about hobbit origins or have any theories. I feel like it was Tolkien’s artistic choice to leave it a mystery but I’m curious to what other people are thinking.