Except that I didn't read hobbits as a species so much as a race. The humans, elves, dwarves, hobbits, and orcs all read to me as instantiations of some fuzzy pre-modern category along the lines of race/nation/ethnicity.
So maybe hobbits are a nation that's never (until the Scouring) had a civil war.
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Date: 2009-03-04 02:36 am (UTC)So maybe hobbits are a nation that's never (until the Scouring) had a civil war.