[JennyHallu]

I was thinking more that the size of Beorn the bear indicated that there was probably fish in his diet, akin to Kodiac bears, especially since that is one animal he never talks to, and it's also a very common meat supplement to American bears...(we do have a lot more bears, and bigger ones) And the ultra harsh Alaskan climate is largely myth...look at a world atlas, and compare the latitude of Alaska to that of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The climate is probably much the same. Sorry, Lommy, but compared to all the Finns here, I'm a spoiled southerner...look at Georgia (the American state, sorry HI) and see how huge the difference is.