What was special about the Hobbits? Or the elves or the dwarfs?

Question

What I remember from reading The Hobbit a long time ago is that the Hobbits were just like people except they had furry feet and lived under trees. I never finished reading the other Tolkien books but I got the impression that all of the non-human creatures acted like humans. They seemed to have all the same strengths and weaknesses as people, approximately the same IQs, same approach to problem solving as people, no super powers. So what was the point of making them non human if they were going to act human?

Answer 1

Because on Tolkien's mythology, elves, humans, dwarves and hobbits were "cousins", related people, and they got even closer because of interracial marriage.

But they were not so equal. As you told us, you never finished reading the other books, because if you did, you would be able to see that, on some situations and issues, the races had a very different aproach (and the movie, unfortunatelly, fails to show it). The humans were so much more eager to enter a war with Sauron than any other of the peoples. The Hobbits, Dwarves and Elves accepted much more easily the destruction of the ring than the majority of the human beings. The elves, because of their imortallity, had much more dificulty on take fast steps to solve a fast answer situations than the humans or the Hobbits, and so on.

Answer 2

I am a published author, two books by Macmillan.
I have read hundreds of books once.
I have read The Hobbit and The Trilogy five times and with each reading I have new interpretations of the books.
J.R.R. Tolkien was a brilliant writer who could weave a tale into the most intricate plots while keeping every character in place.

Answer 3

well more creativity for one,two they do have slighlty different powers such as elves live longer and can hear and see very good,wizard do magic ect. read the other books. there great.

Answer 4

Nothing special at all.

Answer 5

they are fun and not useless.