[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Originally Posted by davem

Certainly, Hobbits seem to have 'pointy ears':

http://www.torania.de/luthien/hobbit...en-bagend2.htm

so if hobbit ears are 'slightly pointed & Elvish' it would appear that
elvish ears must be more pointed.....

I've got to say, I'm extremely familiar with that picture (when I was a kid it hung on the wall over my bed for about five years) and I never once saw Bilbo's ears as being pointed. I still don't.

I have, however, noticed that Bag End is a HUGE hole: if we assume that Bilbo is 3 ft 6 in, and that he is about 8 to 10 ft from the door (not an unreasonable assumption if we take the tiles in the floor to be standard 8x12 in) then we can pretty accurately measure the height of the door at 8 ft high, and the hole itself as being about 11 feet high (although the picture does cut off the top of the roof so that's more approximate).

But I digress. . .