[Yavanna228]

I suppose if you really have a good imagination or if you are very, very into the books that you could suppose that long ago there was Middle Earth as Tolkien wrote it. I personally don't think of Middle-Earth in that way, but to each his/her own. If indeed Middle Earth was real and hobbits or elves or dwarves still remained, I wonder if Man would have down-played their existence by making the hobbits some fantasy, or would have made the noble elves into the image we have of them today. Doing something like that would almost be what the Celts were supposed to have done to earlier, mightier inhabitants of Ireland, playing them down till they were no more than leprechauns and fairies to the imagination.
To agree with Lyra, if indeed there were hobbits or some race of ME left, then seeing would be believing for me. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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