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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: perhaps a silly (or dead) question...
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 06:15:46 EDT
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Since no one else has undertaken to answer this question, I shall
do so.  In article <2210@iddic.UUCP> dorettas@iddic.UUCP (Doretta
Schrock) asks:

> How tall is a Hobbit???

Here is the answer, right from the source---the Prologue to TLotR,
by Mr. Tolkien himself.  I have taken the liberty of extracting
only the relevant paragraph:

	For they are a little people, smaller than Dwarves:  less
	stout and stocky, that is, even when they are not actually
	much shorter.  Their height is variable, ranging between
	two and four feet of our measure.  They seldom now reach
	three feet; but they have dwindled, they say, and in ancient
	days they were taller.  According to the Red Book, Bandobras
	Took (Bullroarer), son of Isengrim the Second, was four
	foot five and able to ride a horse.  He was surpassed in
	all Hobbit records only by two famous characters of old;
	but that curious matter is dealt with in this book.

The two famous characters were, of course, none other than Meriadoc
Brandybuck and Peregrin Took.  If you wish to know more, read the
Prologue yourself; or have a chat with your friendly neighbourhood
Elf, if you can find him---we have become rather scarce.
-- 
Lindor, alias Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251)
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