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I think the argument was hobbits, as a narrative devise, are practically human for the purpose of relatability, so claiming they're a separate "species" with a different lifespan isn't all that relevant to the argument. The first claim is innacurate because, in Tolkien's works, they are...

I think you might be confusing me with someone else. My issue is with the connotation carried by your characterization of 50 year old hobbits as "young". I'm not making an argument that hobbits are "just humans". They're obviously described as a distinct population with qualities that set them...

No, if you want to call a 40 or 45 year old human "young" because it fits with how you conceptualize young adulthood, that's fine. You wouldn't be alone. I just don't think a 50 year old hobbit being at the end of young adulthood is that different from a 40 year old human being at the end of...

Sure, my point is that Frodo at 50 is not the spring chicken he was at 33, at his coming of age. This transition to adulthood occurs in humans between 17 and 22, whereas, at 50, Bilbo is described as having "in fact apparently settled down immovably." Settling down commonly characterizes the mid...

I'm not sure what you'd call young, but in The Hobbit, Bilbo at "about fifty years old or so" is described as "grown up".

I'm thinking of Tolkien's own statement that he was "in fact a Hobbit in all but size." His earliest experiences of the West Midlands, which he undoubtedly drew upon in his depiction of hobbits and the Shire, began as early as 1895 when his family moved to Birmingham and then to Sarehole in...

They're also a 20th century human perspective that serves as a viewpoint for 20th century readers.

Bible charges the stumbling giant, hoping to skewer him with Waythe. Waythe: 1D20+10 = [6]+10 = 16 Slashing damage: 4D6+6 = [4, 2, 5, 6]+6 = 23 The giant must make a DC 15 Strength saving throw or fall prone. Bible AC18 HP 70/94 HD 10/10 PP16 2W 1/1 AS 1/1 Ind 1/1

Are they fresh? If so, they should be fine. It's only slightly over a third of their adventuring day adjusted XP budget.

I voted "other" for the PiL album Second Edition, aka Metal Box.

And quite a bit of the body as well, apparently.

In roughly chronological order: 1. Dungeons & Dragons boxed set (1974) 2. Chainmail (3rd Ed. published by TSR, 1975) 3. Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (Holmes) boxed set with geomorphs and monster and treasure lists (1977) 4. Monster Manual (1977) 5. Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (Holmes) boxed...

Oh yeah, it was great to get what looked like a sequel to the 1939 movie and have it be so creepy. The original material was pretty creepy too, what with Princess Langwidere and the Wheelers. Oz can be kind of dark, a bit like Wonderland in a way.

I enjoyed Tin Man, ymmv.

I haven't seen the musical, but the book was great. Of course, I was talking more about a direct adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

Watched the fourth episode last night. I was taken aback at how extensively it mined LotR for plot elements that were cut from the Peter Jackson movies (Bombadil and the Barrow Wights) and how they were dropped in whole-cloth (taking many lines of dialogue directly from the book) with very...

(15d2) - 12 comes very close to a normal distribution. 10.5 average / standard deviation 1.94. Or you could roll three "averaging dice", d6's where 1's are counted as 3's and 6's are counted as 4's. The range is 6-15 with an average of 10.5 / standard deviation 1.66.

There's a requirement? I hadn't heard about that.

Assumption of compatibility with the Peter Jackson movies?

Here's what I figured out: The Human's ASI includes an increase to two most important scores = 40 pts, two moderately important scores = 24 pts, and two least important scores = 8 pts. Total = 72 pts. The Variant Human's ASI is an increase to two most important scores = 40 pts. A feat = 24...