|
Good thoughts, Son of Númenor, and I'd like to add one more connection - Tolkien himself! He spoke of himself as being very hobbitish in his tastes, and he apparently was so in his normal daily life, and yet this tremendous imagination resided inside him, with languages, poetry, and story - in short, Faery. So he was himself a combination of Hobbit and Elf. I think that aspect of his own personality can be found in Frodo, though the hobbit is not an autobiographical character.
__________________
'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
|