transcription: in lotr the word “man” is only used for human men so now im imagining like, someone: “are you a man or a woman?” pippin: “im a hobbit” someone: “but whats in your trousers?” pippin: “mostly snacks”
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Correction, Tolkien uses ‘man’ for ‘human’ in general, following Old English semantics.
More accurately it’d be, “are you were or wife?”
Thus it came to the ears of Hobbiton that a guest was come, who asked of Pippin whether, as one of the Men, he was a were or wife. “Neither”, Pippin declared: “I am an Hobbit”. But the visitor was yet unwilling to yield, and asked once more which was the matter below his belt. “Food, I suppose, my sir; elevensies, lunch, and possibly an afternoon meal, if I will.”
Some time ago, I realised a female werewolf is a wifwolf, which is just precious.
Yes, until the infuriating plot break when Tolkien had Éowyn say “I am no man” and fucking succeeded in killing the Witch King with Merry. Then he was absolutely using ‘man’ to mean cisgender male human.
Éowyn isn’t her true name, Ann is. She is a gnome. I thought this was well-established.
I didn’t know this. Granted, I’ve only watched the movies (extended editions of course, I’m not a heathen), but I don’t remember seeing or hearing that at all…
That is true, but note that Tolkien used a lowercase there. (I’ve corrected mine to be uppercase).
Hobbits are men (distantly related) in Tolkien’s lore.
Dwarves and Elves are completely different things.
Source for hobbits being related to men?
Still, Tolkien clearly states in “Concerning Hobbits” that hobbits are not technically a distinct race from Men, the way that Elves or Dwarves are, but branched off from other humans in the distant past of the Elder Days.
“What’s in Frodo’s trousers?”
Golum and Samwise in unison: “My precious” 🥵
Jesus, where’s shakira to tell us to put a ring on it?
That’s just Shakira law. I’m not a hiplian, so I am not required to
“What’s in your trousers?”
Bilbo: “Guess!”They are a different race, what if they have different genitals? Or no genitals? They might not even reproduce what if they just grow from mushrooms in the woods and there entire purpose is to die on the mushrooms and bring all that fertilizer back to the fungus?
The foot-hair is actually pubes.
Sam married and had a ton of kids. I think they definitely reproduce somehow. Could be a spore situation. Maybe Hobbits work like WH40K Krorks, aka Orks.
More fertilizer, my god! Not reproduction the mushrooms were the real beings all those kinds were parasitic P-zombies, forget Sauron we have to stop these things!
Hobbits and hobbettes.
Dwarfs and dmarfs.
How do they figure out which bathrooms to use without major incidents!?
Wherever the queue is the shortest.
Well, I suppose they all use the same outhouse.
“It’s true, you don’t see many dwarf women. And in fact they’re so alike in voice and appearance, they’re often mistaken for dwarf men!”
(Whispering) “It’s the beards.”
I was never quite sure whether Aragorn meant “beards are how you tell them apart” or “the women having beards are why they’re so often mistaken”
isn’t it definitely the latter?
Whether or not Dwarven women have beards is a hotly debated topic in both LOTR and DnD. I was surprised to learn this too.
What do you weave into your beard: lavender or cedar?
