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Olorin_TLA · 11-08-2003, 04:17 PM

Hobbits were once men, but now they're shorter.

It's not hard to think of, either. We've been around on the earth for 150,000 eyars, at last count. Now, we ahve many pygmy tribes, one of which has the remarkable feature of two-toed feet!

In HoMeX Tolkien decided to shunt the Awakening of Man back several millenia because of the differeneces between all types of men not having long enough to arise earlier (nor the technological advances) and because of new cosmological theories.

So in that huge timescale, what's so strange about pygmies developing with hairy feet?

11-08-2003, 04:17 PM	#31
Olorin_TLA Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Gardens of Lórien, Valinor. Posts: 420	Hobbits were once men, but now they're shorter. It's not hard to think of, either. We've been around on the earth for 150,000 eyars, at last count. Now, we ahve many pygmy tribes, one of which has the remarkable feature of two-toed feet! In HoMeX Tolkien decided to shunt the Awakening of Man back several millenia because of the differeneces between all types of men not having long enough to arise earlier (nor the technological advances) and because of new cosmological theories. So in that huge timescale, what's so strange about pygmies developing with hairy feet? __________________ "For I am Olórin! And Olórin means me!" ELENDIL! - Join "Forth Tolkiengas!"