Object - no
Person - yes

Is this person mortal?

Object - no
Person - yes
Mortal - no

In Middle-Earth?

Do you mean that his role is played in Middle Earth or that he was born there?
Yes, for the most part (role), no he was not born there.

Object - no
Person - yes
Mortal - no
ME - ???

Is he an Elf?

Because of ME??? I'll take a chance and say Maglor.

Object - no
Person - yes
Mortal - no
ME - ???
Elf - no
Maglor - no

Hey, Might, you should have waited for the answer.:rolleyes:

...So, not an Elf. Well, that narrows it down quite a bit. A Maia? (Note: by which I mean "officially" a Maia, leaving out characters who might or might not be.)

Object - no
Person - yes
Mortal - no
ME - ???
Elf - no
Maglor - no
Maia - yes

Again, the question marks are there because the question was not clear, and the way it was said it could have a few answers.

One of the good guys?

Object - no
Person - yes
Mortal - no
ME - ???
Elf - no
Maglor - no
Maia - yes
Good guy - yes

Gandalf?

That he is!

Oh, good.:)

Well, then– I've thought of something. Ask away.

Person?

Yes.

mortal?

Yes, it's a mortal.

Human?
Isn't anyone ever going to visit this thread except for me and Nerwen?

Human? –sort-of.

Isn't anyone ever going to visit this thread except for me and Nerwen? –Doesn't look like it, does, it?

Halfelven? ;)

No.

Hmmm....sort of human, not halfelven....
Was he/she/it alive during the 1st age?

No.

3rd?

Yes.

Was it a nazgul?

Hey, there's someone else posting!
 

Person? –yes.
Mortal? –yes.
Human? –sort-of.
Half-Elven? –no.
1st Age? –no.
3rd Age? –yes.
Nazgûl? –no.

You two have identified two ways in which a person might be "sort-of human". There's another. Hint: think about taxonomy.

'Nother hint: Technically speaking, I could have answered "yes" to the question of whether this party is human– yet that would have badly misled you. (I don't say I wasn't tempted ;) )

Are we looking for a specimen of homo sapiens subsp. hobbitus?

Is it male?

Person? –yes.
Mortal? –yes.
Human? –sort-of.
Half-Elven? –no.
1st Age? –no.
3rd Age? –yes.
Nazgûl? –no.
Hobbit? –yes!
Male? –no.

Rosy Cotton?

How could I not guess that it's a hobit?!

Rosie Cotton? –no.

Does she have a speaking part in LotR?

If its a female hobbit that isn't Rosy, its either Melilot Brandybuc or that random person called Esmeralda, Rory Brandybuck's daughter in law.

Person? –yes.
Mortal? –yes.
Human? –sort-of.
Half-Elven? –no.
1st Age? –no.
3rd Age? –yes.
Nazgûl? –no.
Hobbit? –yes!
Male? –no.
Rosie Cotton –no.
Speaking part? –no (for good reason)!
Melilot Brandybuck? –no.
Esmeralda Brandybuck (Merry's mother)? –no.

(By the way, Galadriel55, why do you think it can be only those two?)

Am I correct in assuming she wasn't alive anymore at the time of LotR?

I completely forgot about Elanor!
And Esmeralda is Rory Brandybuck's daughter-in-law. I don't think she's Merry's mom.