Current Events > Are Halflings/Hobbits considered elves or humans?

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What about Dwarves and Gnomes?

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All different things. Of that list, only humans and elves can interbreed.

Theyre humanoid, but not humans or elves specifically.

And in the context of LOTR they were all created separately so they are not linked by evolution.

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They're considered Halflings, Dwarves, and Gnomes.

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Well if you had to class them as one or the other, which would it be?

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DK9292 posted...

Well if you had to class them as one or the other, which would it be?

probably closer to human than elf

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Closer to dwarfs

In DnD they are neither.

I thought Hobbits in Tolkien were a branch of humans. They moved from the ancestral lands of humans in the East to the West at some undisclosed time. They are a splinter sub-group of humans, and they have the gift of men. I just want to edit this. I was working from memory. I guess it's not definitive but heavily implied.

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Hobbits#Origin

Hobbits were considered Men. Nearly all scholars agree that Men were closely related to Hobbits, far more closely than Men were to either Elves or Dwarves. It was thus commonly assumed that Hobbits were among the Younger Children of Ilvatar and were the result of the same act of creation as Men. This would imply that Hobbits had the Gift of Men to pass entirely beyond Arda.
It is supposed that Hobbits branched out from Men as a race in the Elder Days.[12] Their exact origin is unknown but in their early days they could have been primitive and "savage"[3] but they come into the records not earlier than the early Third Age where they were living in the Vales of Anduin in Wilderland, between Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains. They have lost the genealogical details of how they are related to the rest of mankind. While they stayed there, the Northmen knew them. Their descendants, the Rohirrim, had that memory of the holbytlan and they remained an object of lore until they contacted them during the War of the Ring. Many old words and names in "Hobbitish" are cognates of words in Rohirric, so much so that even someone without linguistic training could make out the relation (Meriadoc Brandybuck would later write an entire book devoted to the relationship, Old Words and Names in the Shire).

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DK9292 posted...

Well if you had to class them as one or the other, which would it be?

Humanoid

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