Re: CHAT: Tolkien (was Re: fantasy)

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> IIRC, it was different between the three 'subethnicities' --- the
> Stoors, the Tooks, and I forget. But most hobbits certainly had very
> hairy feet.
>
> I don't think it's not made perfectly clear in the book, but I always
> assumed that these three groups had some admixture of elven, human and
> dwarven blood, respectively.
Ha ha!  And I always thought they were based on the Welsh!  The stocky
body build, the round solid faces, the brown curly hair and brown eyes,
the hilly
terrain.  I always saw them as leprechaunized Welshmen!  PACE!!!! she
screams,
having spent a year of her life in Wales.  The names are very Anglo, but
the
faces are Welsh.

Sally
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