[Ainaserkewen]

Oh shout...I know this one. I once read an elaborately illustrated guide book to the Hobbit(back when I just looked at the pictures, darn). With each character description, they had the "origins" of everybody's name and race. Tolkien listed long lines of words that changed and evolved to what they are today. A parallel would be latin to english. A lot of latin words evolved to english words we use now. I can't for the life of me remember the list for the word Hobbit, but at some point, Gollum was called a Hobgoblin and they showed the relations between the words Hobbit and Goblin. I do know though, that the word Hobbit, in the actual story, has something to do with "Hobytla" which is what the Rohirrim called Merry and Pippin. I shall try my best to relocate the book for you. For the real origin of the word, Tolkien might have just made it up, and lead up to it with his own invented research. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this.

On an earlier note on the Fallowhides looking and acting so much like the elves that lived with them, that there was suspicion of racial mixing. I have my doubts about that theory, nomatter how many fanfics I read on the subject. I still think that if the Fallowhides lived and worked with the elves, they would develope some of their cultural traits. And with the taller, slimmer, paler physical traits, I think it would have to do with where they lived and what they ate. If a race is subjected to such finery for multiple generations(and we're talking alot) they would adapt and evolve, just like the Hartfoots and the Stoors. But then they all mixed back together and some strans can still be seen. Like when different human cultures mix, there is some remnance of the two cultures. Like me, I was born here in Canada. My direct disendants are from Holland and England, but I have red hair. It's odd because both my sister and I are the only red heads in our surviving family. But along the line one of my great grandmothers was Irish...thus, I got my red hair from her. I think that Hobbits would be the same way.