Note the uncanny resemblance between this picture of Bilbo Baggins (drawn from the journals of S. Gamgee), and the image of the late J.R.R. Tolkien. Perhaps the professor's joking about hobbit blood was not entirely unfounded...
*OR*
Tolkien: "I just had a funny thought. If Dwarf women are similar to Dwarf men, they must have beards."
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