Posted: April 30, 2000 at 16:49:11: by Aelmer
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: : : : : Has anyone ever seen a hobbit? I don't think I have. I've seen dwarves although not the ones Tolkiens talking aobut. : : : :
: : : : Actually, when I was in jr. high I was short for my age and had curly brown hair and since my friends knew I liked Tolkien I ended up being nicknamed "Hobbit". But, no, I turned out to be just a short man. Oh well. : : :
: : : Well in The Hobbit Tolkien says that Hobbits need description nowadays because most of us don't know what they look like. Maybe they just don't like us and they like to hide. : : : -Valgus : : Our very own Aelmer wrote a very interestin story on the subject. : Really? I would like to see that. Is it on the Net?
: -Thentaran The story that I wrote back in the late 70's is not on the Net.
Its length,book size, and the hope of one day publising it, are the reasons it is not on the Net. One of the elements in the story is the divergence of hobbits into two groups. One group being the traditional short hobbits, the other being the taller descendents of Merry and Pippin. As the taller hobbits continued to become taller and more numerous, the traditional hobbits began to distance themselves from the taller hobbits. In my history, the traditional hobbits eventurally came to see the tall hobbits as men, not hobbits. A while back, I posted a message or two on this board under the name of Wittsit Goodbody, the main hobbit character in that story. In that post, I implied that tradtional hobbits still existed throughout the world.
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