Another Way Round

[The Saucepan Man]

Hroom, once I substituted Hobbits for Giants, I immediately thought of Treebeard. On discounting him, there was only one other I could think of who reacts to Hobbits in such a way ...

Your tongue is strangely changed; but the name sounds not unfitting so. Hobbits! No report that I have heard does justice to the truth.

Theoden to Merry and Pippin at Isengard.