No no no, you have it all wrong. What was happening in middle-earth at the time was kind of like an inquisition of hobbits.
Hobbits are in fact, really small people. Freaks of nature that people couldn't accept. So they shipped them all off to this small corner of the globe to live, with Gandalf the Warder coming to check up on them every so often.
The shire that is depicted in LOTR is a sugar-coated version of an asylum for small people and "freaks" and it shrouds the real truth that the people of middle-earth were really all just bigots. I mean come on, is it that hard to comprehend? The whole Dwarf-Elf conflict?
But no one has heard of the shire, you say. Come on, Everyone's heard of it, just nobody talks about it. Its one of those things, they just like to pretend they don't know about it. So when a couple of these "four foot freaks" comes along, they panic and feign surprise.
Its so obvious isn't it? But good cover up, Tolkien.
[ November 13, 2003: Message edited by: dedoublya ]
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