Indeed, though the Great Plague was over 1000 years ago, there was a famine more recently. Maybe Hobbits really just are that resilient and cheerful that they

Indeed, though the Great Plague was over 1000 years ago, there was a famine more recently. Maybe Hobbits really just are that resilient and cheerful that they just carry on despite massive depopulation events that would make the Black Death look fairly tame.