Quote Originally Posted by Sapphire Guard View Post
Honestly I don't think they'll go near any of this. A Harfoot society in one era, a Hobbit society later in a completely different one, there's no need for this story to go into anything at all relating to the links between the two and they would be crazy to do so.

If we take the Harfoots as precusrors to the shire hobbits in any way, uplifted or not, there's still some unfortunate implications in them losing their Irish accents as they become "civilised", but the way around that is to view this as a completely separate continuity from the movies, or that they're not precursors at all, this tribe never settled in the Shire but live somewhere else.
We might see is a change in leadership over the seasons of the series, where Harfoot leadership is adopted by critical members of the community and usher a small but steady change that as audience members we can interprete as the beginnings of a sedentary, less superstitious Hobbit culture.