Who do people think HBP Is?/ Hagrid a Halfling.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 131302

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mich Verrier" <mich at n...> wrote:

Mich Verrier:
> The only person who I know who used the term Halfling was 
> J. R. R. Tolkien and Tolkien's word was used to discribe 
> the Hobbits. I don't know whether it is even spelled that 
> way, I think that it might be spelled differently and 
> pronounced differently as well, and the way I think it 
> might be spelled and pronounced is Haffling. 

Geoff:
You are quite right. "Hobbit" was the term used by the hobbits 
themselves while the men of Gondor used the term "halfling" and the 
Rohirrim on occasion used "holbytla".

Hagrid definitely does not qualify as a halfling. He wouldn't get 
through the front door of the house.
;-)