First, a little backstory: (Not as to why she’s short–that’s because her family’s little.)
As you know, I have a life-sized cardboard stand-up of Merry, Sam, Frodo, and Pippin. This is pre-Ent draught, so they’re all about 4’, 4’5" or something. Out of sheer curiousity, I had my friend stand next to them. She was only a few inches taller.
She has curly dark hair.
We now call her Frodo.
Well, to be fair, Hobbits are not usually that tall. The range for height is from the mid 2s to the high 3s. Bullroarer (and Pippin and Merry) were among the very few to exceed 4 feet.
Odd, that, Bambi Hassenpfeffer, I always thought that was the height range for the dwarves, and the hobbits were mid 3s to low 4s, with Merry and Pippin (and selected others) being unusally tall by about six inches.
So are hobbits shorter than dwarves, or is it 'tother way round?
While we’re at it, let’s make a ful hijack and ask how tall elves are in comparison to men.
Very sorry for the distraction.
Ack, that was a typo on my part. My husband is a hair under FIVE feet, and his mother/uncles all six inches shorter than that.
Heh.
I have a big personality!
I may be tall for a hobbit, and granted they’re pretty cute, but I wants me some elf instead. g
And I thought that dwarfs – Tolkien’s, anyway – were taller than hobbits. If I remember right, from the books, hobbits top out at about four feet. So that’d put the dwarfs at closer to five. Still short, but a lot more…massive.
As far as I can recall, dwarves top out around 5, and elves top out in the mid-6s. Men follow the range we see today, and the Istari are about elf sized, maybe a little taller.
A girl who I have a bit of a crush on is a few inches shorter than 5 feet. I don’t knot anyone shorter than that.
knot is of course supposed to be know.
My apologies.
Among the “talls” in my family, I’m the shortest. I’m 5’10" and feel dainty compared to my family.
Then I go into the real world.
My mom, who is 4’11". And to answer the other thread, my dad is the tallest person I know, at 6’4". Quite a couple!