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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hellbender" data-source="post: 946279" data-attributes="member: 795">What Wicht said, read the preface to the books. For crying out loud, why is this a big deal? So he saw a word and borrowed it, big deal. I doubt the Denham Tracts, while obscure, were out of reach of an English professor at Oxford. Do we all agree a goblin is smaller than an orc? A troll is a large sized creature? A hobbit is a small demi-human?    Tolkien never says hobbits are great wizards, just that they have the 'everyday sort of magic', and that they are 'little people'. Fey-like qualities, no? That is already more detail than the Denham Tracts gives.hellbender</blockquote>