[Silvae]

Hi all!
This strange, imprecise little bunny has been niggling me for most of the day, so here goes :
We know that the first hobbits started moving from their original home, between Greenwood and the Misty Mts (around where Beorn lived in The Hobbit, I think), around T.A. 1050, when the shadow fell on Greenwood. First the Harfoots (feet! sorry, bad joke) moved directly over the Misties to Weathertop, then the Fallohides entered Eriador (c. T.A. 1150) by the mountains North of Rivendell and came down the Hoarwell before moving up North again, while the Stoors (Sméagol's ancestors) moved to Dunland, following the Bruinen South, and dwelt near Tharbad for a while before they too moved Northward. In T.A. 1300, the Hobbits who were already in Eriador, namely the Fallohides and the Harfoots, moved westward and founded Bree, and in T.A. 1356 the last Stoors left Dunland and join them (well, some go to the Wilderlands, but that's unimportant).

(Whoa, that was one unclear summary!)

OK, now, forgetting the Stoors : the Harfoots (especially) and the Fallohides (who loved Elves) passed very close to Rivendell in their "exodus", and dwelt under the eaves of Mirkwood (and we know that the Mirkwood Elves used to live further south than where they lived at the time of The Hobbit). So we have all these LOtR Elves who were already around at that time (Elrond, Elladan, Elrohir, Thranduil, possibly even Legolas) and who might have met them. I don't remember any of the characters listed above saying, either in The Hobbit or in LOtR (correct me if I'm wrong) that they'd never met hobbits before.

Well now I've done my little (?! very very lengthy, I meant) exposé for ya, here's the bunny :

What if one of the Elves mentioned above (ah, well, not Thranduil, obviously) told Merry/Pippin/Sam/Frodo about this meeting? Or remembered and consequently compared the modern halflings to the first ones they knew?

Is this bunny feasible? Has it already been done about a thousand times? Are you interested in adopting it?

Cheers (with finger cramps from typing too long),
Silvae

[Eyborg]

Hey, that's an excellent bunny! I'll at least think about it. Might be very, very interesting!

[Silvae]

Oops! Sorry for the very tardy reply, Eyeborg. Thanks for looking into it, and just forget it if it turns out to seem boring.
Cheers,
Silave