Hobbits and House Elves

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...>
wrote:
> 
> Looks like they may have found evidence of the 'little people'. 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3948165.stm
> for a report on hobbit sized hominids - interestingly, the remains 
> date back only 18,000 years, which is co-existent with modern humans.
> 
> Pip!Squeak

bboyminn:

I too read this. And the amazing thing is this was not a race of
mutants. By that I mean they weren't dwarfs or midgets. They were
perfectly health, perfectly formed and proportioned humans who just
happened to be three feet tall. 

They were discovered in the Flores Island of Indonesia. Even more
bizarre, they shared the islands with midget elephants and rats as big
as dogs.

Pygmies of Africa are short, but they are in the range of 4 to 5 feet.
To help you visualize three feet(*), if you are sitting at a desk
right now as you read this, the average desktop is about 30 inches.
Isn't that about the size of a 7 or 8 year old (maybe younger,
difficult for me to tell since I'm not around kids much.)

(*)note: some articles say one meter (40inches), other say 3 feet,
others say both.

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)