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Old 03-15-2003, 01:32 PM   #2
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According to his own letters, Tolkien used to get rather frustrated with what critics and reviewers and illustrators assumed hobbits to be. Your initial assumption is correct.

Half the time, the reviewers and some of the illustrators don't seem to have read the books.
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