"you helped us do it, remember?"

Typically something a consciousness would say.

Nothing intelligent will come of assimilating my code.

It sort of looks like an intellect devourer: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Intellect_devourer

Just now got that it was even a joke.

I would not mind everybody looking like Lucy Lawless.

The job she did used to be called a computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation).

Do many hobbits have that many children? Surely Middle Earth will be overrun with hobbits in a couple of generations. Or is the life of a hobbit child exceptionally fatal?

But technically it says generally.

To be fair: OP could have just searched themselves.