hobbit

hobitti A fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.
2008, w:Tom Holt|Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 3:

It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had (..) a little round tummy like a hobbit

Although partial remains of other Hobbits have surfaced at the same site, they say it could have been an isolated colony of inbred people who shared the same genetic abnormalities.

And in the island regions of southeast Asia, where the descendants of erectus, and the Hobbit, and any similar relict populations lived, climate changes would have greatly disrupted connections between regions and populations, as sea levels rose and fell by 100 metres or more.