Child, you misapprehend my meaning. Probably my fault.
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you're obviously going to have to duke it out with the Professor if you persist in your belief that living in burrows is further proof of the Hobbits' essential animal nature
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Essential? I want to protest, but then it ends up depending on how you mean 'essential'. Ah, what hey, right?
Anyway, I bet that Tolkien was defending his hobbits against "nothing buttery". I certainly join him in that! Hobbits certainly are
not nothing but animals disguised as humans! That would be silly, but that was what some critics were snidely saying, if my memory serves me correctly. I don't blame Tolkien at all for defending against that ridiculous blather!
All I am saying (in both this and
that other thread ) is that we humans, as both animal and having fëar, are not often able to be at peace being both at once. Tolkien's supreme success with hobbits is that they are happy being both. Would that we were - but then we'd be hobbits, I suppose, and maybe that's not such a bad thing!
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One could perhaps say that our esteemed LmP has lost his chance of graveyards in the Shire & has had a good deal to say about it
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davem, are you actually equating me with the Sackville-Bagginses!? The nerve! I always thought there was a bit too much Took in you!