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That's a traditional-style English wooden 'coffin' smoothing plane!
And even better - that hobbit is holding it in the correct traditional position in the right stance, too.
Say what you will, the things this film did get right, it got right. Far over the misty mountains cold, anyone?
You can also see a longer wooden plane (maybe a try plane, but I think it's a jack), some kind of rabbeting or moulding or plough plane, wooden handscrew clamps doing the workholding, a folding wooden saw (possibly a turning saw), a wooden mallet, and right off to the right what I think might be a router plane. I'm not sure what he's working on (maybe rocker of a rocking chair or the top piece of a headboard? Idk, but that 'stand' looking thing also visible looks like the leg of a small table to me), but this is a very convincing set of tools for a hobbit woodworker.
The only deviation from 'historical accuracy' is that by 1897 the Bailey-style/Stanley metal-bodied handplane was extremely common place and had largely overtaken wooden planes (perhaps not somewhere as rural as a Shire analogue would have been, but I've no evidence either way), but I think we can all agree that would be an entirely inappropriate tool for a hobbit in comparison to the wooden coffin plane.
I suspect these tools are actual antiques as well tbh, because those would be easier to find than making them (complex mortise work, the distinctive colouring of old beech, the chips and bits of paint on the handscrews, making irons and chipbreakers, etc.) - they're relatively common to find in the US/Canada/England, and that seems much easier to do than making that plough plane for a shot that lasts 2 seconds. Hell, you'd probably need originals to reference to make replicas this close. Someone with a good knowledge of traditional woodworking absolutely had influence on this shot.