Yeah, I'm not Dutch, either, but is Swedish close enough? Oh. Wait. It's NOT just Dutchs. Dutches. Dutchsses. The Dutchish. (?) Alright, then i'm in!
I don't know where Hobbits come from (that's getting repetitve, no?) but I'd like to add that they definately were NOT "created"...which you have seemed to have come to the conclusion of, anyway. You know how Treebeard doesn't know what Merry and Pippin are? And Treebeard was around FOR EVER...
Oh! If you're looking for the hobbit's origin, read Concerning Hobbits! Took me a while, I jsut thought I'd glance...then DUH! But yeah. It's pretty vague stuff, though.
Apparently they "originated" on the western side of the misty mts. And they had their "wandering days" or whatever, when the crossed the mts. to the NE section of Middle earth. Yeah.
Maybe they're a sort of half-elf crossbreed? That's just a me-guess, strictly, i have no idea.
But I think it's the way it's s'posed to be. Tolkien...heck, okay, Iluvatar planned it to be where, well, this...people...that is truely OF middle-earth, that no one knows where they came from or who they are... I just think that it's fitting that, well--MIDDLE-EARTH's child saves the world in the end! Something like that. Anyone following me on that?
Oh, and Anuion, congrats on reading the Silmarillion! It's a tough read, but I really honestly think you CAN get through the entire book. I, too, read all of it, though I didn't get it the first time... AT ALL.... There ARE a lot of names involved. Seriously. You gotta sit there and read about a page at a time in some places, stopping to refer to a Tolkien Companion or Guide to Middle Earth every time a new name pops up! Crazy!
One last note, I DEFINATELY think the Silm. is Tolkien's Christianity coming through. I mean, Melkor used to be a good guy, just like Satan! I think TOlkien planned it that way. What's the one quote: The Lord of the Rings is a Christian work. Unconciously so in the beginning but conciously in the revision, or something like that? Yeah! Go Tolkien!
...Then there is Jackson the Defiler, whom i still plan on murdering--with an axe--if ROTK displeases me as much as TTT did. Hey, he's like Melkor! He wasn't ALWAYS a bad guy! PJ...the Fallen Angel?
Woo, sorry I got off topic, and man this is a really long post. sorry!
--Lanniae
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