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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Actually there are - the Harfoots. Sam Gamgee was one in the books.

Sam drew out the elven-glass of Galadriel again. As if to do honour to his hardihood, and to grace with splendour his faithful brown hobbit-hand that had done such deeds, the phial blazed forth suddenly, so that all the shadowy court was lit with a dazzling radiance like lightning; but it remained steady and did not pass.

The Fallohides were fair.

18 posted on 11/28/2010 6:05:52 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

From the LOTR Prologue, Concerning Hobbits:

‘The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless...


31 posted on 11/28/2010 6:15:51 PM PST by Free Vulcan (The battle isn't over. Hold their feet to the fire.)
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To: naturalman1975; USFRIENDINVICTORIA

From reading many British childrens’ books while growing up (many written in the early to mid 1900s), tanned skin was usually called “brown”. It meant tanned white skin. Not the dark brown of of for instance African, Arab or some Asian skin.

Tolkien was using “brown” in that sense.


64 posted on 11/28/2010 8:32:10 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
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To: naturalman1975

“Schwarzenegger” means “Black Plowman” according to Arnold’s own statement years ago on the Dick Cavett show. Cavett wondered how the Shriver’s reacted to a “Black Plowman” joining the family, which elicited a smile from him.


74 posted on 11/29/2010 12:00:12 AM PST by dr_lew
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