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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
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i did say that halfling had been accurate when coined. The point i was trying to make as i rambled was indeed that it would have seemed a bit cheeky for a five foot six Bree man to call a nearly four foot hobbit Halfling.
Terms which were originally merely descriptive becoming perjorative are clearly not a modern phenomenon.
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