Flores Island's Modern Pygmies And The "Hobbit" Homo Floresiensis

From the home of the "hobbit" (and I'm not talking about The Shire): Researchers have sequenced DNA from modern pygmy populations on the Indonesian island of Flores to determine whether they are descended from Homo floresiensis, a famously small-statured archaic human living there as recently as 50,000 years ago.
When diminutive H. floresiensis was first described in 2004, Peter Jackson's cinematic take on the Lord of the Rings was near peak popularity, so of course the