Re: Hobbits, Austronesians, and Creoles

Rodlox R wrote:
>> From: Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
>> Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Hobbits, Austronesians, and Creoles
>> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:44:51 -0500
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>> color; others have more definite "Negroid" features); and in the
>> remaining
>> pockets of non-AN languages round and about (islands to the E of Flores,
>> and
>> Timor, at least).  Legends about the "little people" could well have been
>> adopted from them.


>  well, to play devil's advocate (or not), what "hobbits" existed in early
> Ireland and such places, to start legends of "little people" there?
I don't see the connection between "hobbits" and Irish legends of "little people".
Are you thinking of the Lucky Charms style of "Leprachauns"? Whatever abyss of
Celtic twilightdom they crawled out of, they seem to have little to do with the
fairy folk (Sí) of Irish folklore. These fairies don't really seem to be anything
like hobbits. They're essentially supernatural and nonhuman, while "hobbits" are
basically human.

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