Just wondering...

[Frieda]

Well, humans and elves can reproduce together can't they?
So, I was wondering, do you think that hobbits and humans could reproduce together too?

I don't think it's ever happened but I'm curious as to if it'd be possible. :/ Maybe we don't really know but what do you think?

I'd guess that it's possible since they are quite similar to each other.
It would probably be a little weird though to see a pairing of a human and a hobbit though since there'd be such a height difference. ^^

Anyways, I hope this is the right forum for a topic like this. If it isn't then someone can move it.

[piosenniel]

Hobbits and humans are from similar races, there is no reason they couldn't reproduce.

[Gayalondiel]

Genetically they could, as hobbits are in origin humans, as i understand it. However it would probably be fatal for a hobbit lass to carry a half-human child. Not to mention their general distrust of the Big People.

So technically yes, but they probably wouldn't.

[Frieda]

So the female would probably have to be the human and the male the hobbit most likely?

And I agree that they probably wouldn't...it'd probably be a rare occurance if it ever happened.

Well, thanks for replying though. ^_^ At first I didn't think anyone was going to. :/

[Evisse the Blue]

How about hobbits and elves? I think I read somewhere a fanfic with this improbable storyline.

But then again, think of the Tooks ancestors who are said to have married a 'fairy'.