[grey_whiskers]

Cheers!

[My2Cents]

If Americans are hobbits, who's Gandalf?

[Lil'freeper]

Some of us might be.

[Nathan Zachary]

I knew a few people who could easily pass as hobbits without any makeup or foot extensions.
I don't know about their heartiness however, they are liberals and would probably roll over and die if faced with any adversities.

[PzLdr]

I'd rather be a Nazgul!

[Millee]

After a late night, I woke up with someone who looked like a Hobbit.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Americans certainly are descended from the British...and Tolkien based Hobbits on one [particularly appealing] aspect of the British national personality circa the very early 20th century. So a connection is certainly "in the genes".

[billbears]

Are Americans Hobbits

No, no, and no. Tolkien was addressing the Industrial Revolution and in some ways the walk of a Christian. Quit twisting a timeless piece of literature to justify US foreign policy

[big'ol_freeper]

Ping

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

But does this mean that Americans as a whole are weak, or are unwilling to fight?... Yes, a real “creature of comfort.”

One does not preclude the other.

I enjoy my comforts. I see little virtue in sleeping on the cold ground when you have the ability to have a warm bed or to eat dry bread and beans when a seven course meal awaits.

Does that mean I am unwilling to fight? Nah! It just means that I take no joy in crushing you to powder. In fact it annoys me because I had other plans involving sitting under my own vine and fig tree with a nice book and maybe some tunes.

But just because I had other plans does not mean that if you push me hard enough that I won't change them.