Hobbit

A fictional diminutive race in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium who inhabit the lands of Middle-earth:

Hobbit
In 2004, on the island of Flores in Indonesia, a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers discovered the remains of a hobbit-sized human, one that stood no more than a meter tall. Remarkable, these researchers determined that this new species of human lived as recently as 13,000 years ago, shattering the long-held belief that Homo sapiens have had the planet to themselves for the past 25,000 years [Reference].