The Bedu Hobbits of Far Harad

Given my love of teaching about Africa and any approach the legendarium that incorporates (in a celebratory way) cultures and influences outside of Western Europe, I absolutely love this. Headcanon 100% accepted! I agree with Azh that the warm colors make the work feel very comfortable and warm, and I love how you can almost see forward in time to Bag End: the tea kettle, the round door, the soft furniture, the warm light of the lamps.

Thanks Dawn, I'm so pleased you like it. And I'm glad it carries a feel of Bagend too. (Some things don't really change that much!)

I have further headcanons about KhoiSan!Hobbits, those that migrated south instead of North, but that's a tale and painting/s for another day.

I'm so pleased my theory interests you and you like the Hobbit tenthole. I realise I got my timing muddled with the Entwives though: if the Hobbits only headed North after the changing of the world, the Entwives' gardens would have already been burned. Although there is the possibility, if any Entwives did survive (and I like to think some at least did) that the Hobbits met some further east, along the way.

If the Hobbits migrated directly directly after the changing of the world, there is  a time window before the destruction of the land of the Entwives, which apparently happened during the War of the Last Alliance. It sounds shorter than it is, because of those long-lived Numenoreans, but it would be long enough for what you envisage, I think. (Not that I thought too hard about it earlier, but now that I'm checking, it's more than a hundred years, time enough for Elendil and his sons to found realms.)