Halflings or Hobbits?

[Mark CMG]

Halflings or Hobbits? (Which term do you prefer and why?)


Crossposted from the new Questions & Answers Forum here on EN World where you should also chime in if you like -

http://www.enworld.org/forum/experimental-q-forum/304959-halflings-hobbits.html

 

[Raven Crowking]

Halflings.

They're not just from the Shire anymore.

(Also, even in LotR, the wider world knew them as halflings.)


RC

 

[BraveSirKevin]

Halflings. But they're still hobbits. None of my halflings will ever wear boots.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Not much difference.

As stated above, "halfling" is essentially their human name.

Most hobbits aren't adventurers, and are pretty similar to the sedentary rural folk seen in the Lord of the Rings series. I wouldn't expect hobbit rogues to be common. (Then again, you could say the exact same thing about humans; most aren't larcenous combatants either.) However, there's nothing preventing some hobbits (especially the skinnier Took-like hobbits) from living in human-dominated lands, getting jobs as bartenders, rogues, and what have you.

WotC can't use the term hobbit, however. I think it's copyrighted.

I'm a little miffed by their evolution. I don't care if WotC only shows fit adventurers, they generally don't show plump noncombatant elves either. But I don't understand why they're supposed to live near water now. That just came out of nowhere. I ignore that, an easy task as I'm running Dark Sun.

 

[Thasmodious]

Halflings, Tolkien can bite me. Hack.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Neither, I give them both the boot and keep the Gnomes instead!

 

[Klaus]

Halflings or Hobbits? (Which term do you prefer and why?)


Crossposted from the new Questions & Answers Forum here on EN World where you should also chime in if you like -

http://www.enworld.org/forum/experimental-q-forum/304959-halflings-hobbits.html

Halflings. The ones from Hobbiton are known as "hobbits".

 

[Rhun]

Halflings. I actually started playing D&D before I was familiar with Tolkien, so they've always been halflings for me.

 

[Leatherhead]

It doesn't matter so long as they aren't Kender.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Hobbits.