The Hobbits didn't exist when he made the rings. They are a relatively new race for Middle Earth. I believe the Silmarillion covers some of their history.
Actually, that's kinda the whole point. The hobbits are considered entirely unimportant to every other race and people in Middle-Earth, and thus are completely underestimated. Only Gandalf saw the potential in them. It's why everyone scoffs at the idea of Frodo taking the Ring to Mordor. But Gandalf understood that their lack of ambition outside of good food, good drink, good pipeweed, and a warm hearth made them remarkably resistant to the lure of the One Ring as a people.
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