☄The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R Tolkien☄Chapter 1☆☆2☄

I wonder how people in our society would submit to remaining underage until the age of 33, which is the year that Hobbits come of age. Their tweens (Hobbits name for teens and twenties combined) are called the time of irresponsibility, and maturity finally settles upon them in their thirties.

This might work for our society today since the decisions we make in youth are not the same expectations we have of ourselves in our thirties.
Unexpectedly, there is also the problem of different ages of maturity. People are inconsistently different, and a mature age for one is just a juvenile age for another.
What if a test was developed to determine what age humans should be let loose onto the unsuspecting world--when we should drive, drink, marry or have children. Though at this point we would turn into an institution of Big Brother with the State administrating complete control over each major decision in our life.

Just as teenagers agree (either willingly or not) that the age of consent is 18, Hobbits in the Shire must have also agreed that coming of age is 33. The thought that human tweens waiting as long as the little folk, to be set free, cast a large doubt that this management of their lives by parents and guardians would be tolerated--plus, what parent would want to have that responsibility for such an extended time.

I also doubt that teen pregnancy, drugs, crime or runaways are a component of the Shire's problems with the tweens that run around getting into mild trouble. Indeed, the crimes of Hobbits were nonexistent and the irresponsibilities of the tweens may be contingent of shirking chores and creating an environment of sloth for themselves rather than a sizable misdeed.

As humans, we must plunge ahead into the future and hope that wisdom and maturity will eventually arrive for us all.

Does Bilbo know any tweens? That will be answered at a later time.