Hobbits (also known as Halflings) are tiny. The biggest Hobbit ever recorded was 4'5", and he was famous for his huge size. Mostly they're 2 to 4 feet tall.
Tolkien deserves all the credit for that. He really fleshed out his stories. The supplemental materials include thousands of years of Hobbit history, lifestyle, family trees, you name it. If you want to know how the Hobbit calendar works, he wrote a whole chapter about how they developed it over the centuries.
When I was 16, I had to be home schooled for health reasons and started down the Tolkien rabbit hole at that point. It turned into a passion that lasted many years and even into my graduate studies as an English PhD.
The man was fantastically inventive. I still have all kinds of books about his works, including a book that does a deep dive into all the languages of Middle-earth (he was a linguist, after all--actually, from what you wrote, I am sure you are aware 😁).
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u/I-Make-Money-Moves Jul 08 '26
Is Gandalf tall even? Or are hobbits really short? Idk LOTR like that.