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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JPL" data-source="post: 7429359" data-attributes="member: 1964">I'm oversimplifying . . . his point was more that hobbits are a romanticized version of pre-industrialized simple salt of the earth folk, as romanticized by an academic who didn't have much experience with / insight into actual rural folk.    All of which I find interesting (like much of what Mieville says), but I guess it's a little far afield from the point I was trying to make, which is just that the Shire and second breakfasts and pipeweed are all pretty well-worn concepts, and I've appreciated the attempts to do something different with halflings.Yet having said that, this business in the new book puts a new twist on the cliches by doubling down on them, and saying, maybe it's the blessing of the gods that these little communities of little people manage to live quiet, happy lives amidst a multiverse of conflict.</blockquote>