The Middle-Earth American Football Tournament

[the phantom]

I'd be categorized as a young teenager but I daresay I could take you down. Of course I suggest we ought to ignore the fact that I'm quite tall and strong for my age

If you are tall and strong enough to take me down then you are undoubtedly larger and stronger than a hobbit. A hobbit sized individual would have no chance. And, as I mentioned before, that's assuming that the hobbit sized individual could even catch me. Even the great Sleepy Ranger might find that a bit difficult.

I don't know...low center of gravity...if they went for your knees...

Heh. I'm guessing that you aren't an athlete who has played football against smaller foes. Let me tell you, a few months ago when one of my cousins tried to employ the go-for-the-knees method, my leg simply went through him like he wasn't there and left his collar bone and side bruised and his nose bloody.

Sure, a hobbit would stand a chance of using this method on a light person without much muscle development, but when you're dealing with someone like me who used to spend three or four hours a day running (either on a track or on a tennis court), the body of a little hobbit isn't much of an impediment to the legs.

And if a hobbit couldn't tackle me, there is no way a hobbit could hope to tackle the likes of Turin, Aragorn, and Isildur.