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Also, in 2009, anthropologists and Catharine FitzGerald compared the Flores bones with those of ten people who had had cretinism, and found no overlap.
By the time of Bilbo and Frodo, these kinds had intermixed for centuries, though unevenly, so that some families and regions skewed more towards descent from one of the three groups.