YOU SAID:
in a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit
INTO JAPANESE
地面の穴、そこ住んでいたホビット
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Hobbits lived in holes in the ground, there
INTO JAPANESE
そこに、地面の穴に住んでいたホビット
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The Hobbit, there lived in holes in the ground
INTO JAPANESE
ある地面の穴に住んでいたホビット
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Hobbits lived in holes in the ground
INTO JAPANESE
地面の穴に住んでいたホビット
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Hobbits lived in holes in the ground
That didn't even make that much sense in English.