hobbits

But, the Hobbits did have rhymes about Tom Bombadil, so someone among the Hobbits knew about him.

The situation is nicely rendered in a scene[0] from Cryptonomicon in which a main character feels like a dwarf among hobbits.

Maybe you read a printing done by a little known cult that censored all referenced to hobbits.

In that conflict both sides would have held hobbits in hatred and contempt: they would not long have survived even as slaves.

Where do they feel that hobbits fit into the scheme of things - they don't seem to be good or evil, just people.

The Hobbits are just normal people, but still have an element of fantasy.

I think the reason that Bombadil his hardly ever mentioned is the taboo which Hobbits have of going on adventures.

We posted this here because we're trying to figure out if hackers are orcs/goblins (fake entrepeneurs) or hobbits (real entrepreneurs).

Humans (and elves and dwarves and hobbits) of whatever color are invariably shown as being moral beings with the capacity for both good and evil.

I don't think there were ever many hobbits engaged in highway banditry in the Balkans.

Unless the people are humans or elfs (hence orcs) or dwarfs or hobbits - then they aren't influenced or changed at all by the power of the ring.

Please stop measuring things like hobbits.

That said, I have a hard time seeing "all orcs/trolls are evil" as an analogue for real-world racism, especially since not all humans/dwarves/hobbits/elves are good.

When I read "The Lord of the Rings" for the first time as a kid, I remember reading the part where Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli ran "for two days and nights" (or something like that) chasing after the hobbits that had been taken by the orcs.

That doesn't mean that Sauron/MS's power was broken, just that it wasn't affecting the Hobbits/hackers in the Shire/Silicon Valley.