Warrior Hobbits?

[Eönwë]

Well, this hasbeen puzzling me ever since I read the hobbit. Did we just meet te hobbits at a peaceful time, or were they always that way?

Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took led the hobbits against the orcs at Mt Gram, and (if yoou thought hobbits were peaceful) knocked off the leader, Golfimbul's head with a club (and it then fell into a rabbit hole, and was meant to have inspired golf. Note: Golfimbal). That was one of the major battles, but still, where do all these weapons come from (and it was only around 300 years before the war of the ring, and hobbits live longer than us). And in the Fell Winter, wolves came, the hobbits must have had self-defence. And in the Battle of Bywater ("Scouring of the shire" ROTK, LOTR), where did all the bows and arrows (not to mention other weapons) come from? They must have been made recently, if you think about it, because wood rots.

They are meant to be descended from Druedain, who are, by the thirs age, a very-warrior like people, and Tolkien is a great fan of giving people ancestral fates and features (except with the whole Aragorn-Isildur thing). For example, even with hobbits, they are like the Druedain because of their love of nature and because of how quiet they can be, so why not inherit their ways of war.

So obviously, hobbits are not as simple (and petty) and peaceful as Tolien led us to believe.