Evolution Comes to Hobbiton

[Gwaihir the Windlord]

Er actually, Diamond, Kalimac said 70 for the purpose of a hypothetical situation, not as the actual hobbit life span. Hobbits were quite long lived indeed compared to Men (non-Numenorean Men anyway).

I mean; when you get down to the basics. They were still Hobbits.

Exactly. It is I think rather like our society versus, say, the Latvian one. We are still humans, and whatever society we have, is based on that fact. Since we all share that fact, societies everywhere have similarites.