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Why do Hobbits seem more technologically advanced than the other Free Peoples of Middle Earth?

Hobbits make use of matches, mechanical clocks, glass windows, bound books, homes made of polished wood, doorbells, doorknobs with integrated locks and latches, and so on. Their technological level feels very much like 17th or 18th century.
By contrast, the rest of Middle Earth seems to use tinder boxes, scrolls, stone castles and houses with thatch roofs, and so on. It appears to be a much more Medieval technological level.
What gives?
gpt
I think its mostly due to the fact that they are so peaceful. Since they have never really been in a war and they dont make weapons of any kind they mostly turned their sites on farming and other forms of invention. WHile the rest of the world has been fighting each other/evil for thousends of years.