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littlemanpoet · 04-02-2002, 04:06 PM

I appreciate your kind words, Shadowfax. That Tuscan proverb is great. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I agree in general with Amarinth, but to consider hobbits 'pure' overstates the case, I think. Hobbits were by no means pure. Maybe this is just semantics, but maybe what you meant is 'uncorrupted'. The difference, as I see it, is that every human, including hobbits (whom Tolkien did see as human) is a mixed bag. Choices make the difference as to whether someone will become evil are remain free of evil. I just thought of this: Tolkien never calls them the Good Peoples, but the Free Peoples. I think that's significant.

Estelyn Telcontar, you have stated my thinking more clearly than I did.

04-02-2002, 04:06 PM	#14
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I appreciate your kind words, Shadowfax. That Tuscan proverb is great. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I agree in general with Amarinth, but to consider hobbits 'pure' overstates the case, I think. Hobbits were by no means pure. Maybe this is just semantics, but maybe what you meant is 'uncorrupted'. The difference, as I see it, is that every human, including hobbits (whom Tolkien did see as human) is a mixed bag. Choices make the difference as to whether someone will become evil are remain free of evil. I just thought of this: Tolkien never calls them the Good Peoples, but the Free Peoples. I think that's significant. Estelyn Telcontar, you have stated my thinking more clearly than I did.