Quote Originally Posted by rodin12 View Post
Frodo was extremely adventurous and very knowledgeable
No, he had never left the Shire prior to the adventure of the One Ring, and hobbits consider a walk from Hobbiton to Frogmorton an adventure. And knowledgeable about what!?! Just because he knew a little more of the outside world than most hobbits, because his uncle was an extraordinary hobbit, does not make him very knowledgeable about it, in fact, Merry, of all people, seems more knowledgeable about area's outside the Shire than Frodo early on in the Fellowship of the Ring.

He was writer and something as an expert in the legends and the language of the Elves.
No, he just spoke a little Quenya, Sindarin, understood their a little of their customs, and knew a bit of their history; I speak a little Mandarin, understand some Cantonese, know what to do, and what not, to do in a Chinese home, and know a little about Chineese mythology, does that make me an expert? Absolutely not! I just happen to know a little more than my peers.



When the company came to Rivendell, Merry showed his prone erudition. He spent hours in libraries of Imladris, studying maps of the lands where would come soon
Well that's just smart, on the most important quest in the history of the universe, you might want to know where your going.

Merry noticed the similarities between the language of the rohirrim and the hobbitico dialect, and wrote a cult study entitled words and old names from the region. Merry developed after extensive experience both in Botany and in the computation of the calendars. He wrote a work entitled Herbarium of the Shire and the important chronology,
Just because you write a book does not make you smart.

Sam also contributed to the Red Book of the border of the West, and wrote several poems.
My roommate had a knack for poetry, even though he fell asleep in class, failed half his classes, and never to submitted anything in on time. he nearly got kicked out of school. Just because you can write poetry does not mean you can be a scholar.

I say a vehement NO to hobbits being anything but hobbits.
Tolkien himself said that hobbits never studied magic, and loremasters are all magic, wizzardy type of people. Why this is hard to fathom I do not know.