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Originally Posted by Inziladun
Right. However, since barefoot was the default state for hobbits. I would think that a presence of footwear would have been more noteworthy than the lack thereof, especially since the "authors" of LOTR were ostensibly hobbits themselves.
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I agree. I was only wondering in consideration of the example of
The Hobbit, Bilbo's tale, where he doesn't seem to mention boots in the text (but had them according to Tolkien) -- but still, I would lean to default state, even so.
Anyway, nice find on the citation [Aragorn and so on]; exactly what I was thinking of.
I do think some orcs were at least close to Hobbit size in any event, as a side point.