Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Raymond Brown wrote:
> > I thought everything about Hobbits were round - certainly their stomachs
> > were :)
>
> I always thought the Hobbits just looked like small, fat, humans with
> furry feet (since it said in the book that their feet were furry - did
> it say their ears were furry?, I can't remember)
>
I think that everything was furry in the Hobbits (maybe even the palm
of their hands? No, it's another book I read).
> Dwarves I think of as also small, but not as small as Hobbits, but with
> long grey beards, and very muscular.
>
That seems to be a fair description.
> Elves I've seen as graceful humans. I've never imagined them looking
> different from humans, except perhaps a bit smaller, and looking very
> beautiful.
>
There you have a problem. Tolkien described his Elves as being taller
than humans, not smaller. You see? a rest of the popular belief due to
other fairy tales :) .
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