I don’t see large flat hairy feet. Tolkein’s model was leprechauns.
But just for fun:
“After a few years, the self-appointed spokesman and protector of the Tasaday, Philippine politician Manuel Elizalde, built a wall to protect the Tasaday from outsiders and exploitation. Armed guards were stationed to keep out reporters and curious onlookers; only a handpicked very few were allowed to visit the “lost tribe.”
“But some who did manage to get in started having doubts about the Tasaday.
One linguist noted that the tribe had words such as “roof,” which would likely be unknown to the cave-dwelling Tasaday. Some reporters heard rumors that the Tasaday tribesmen were actually ordinary citizens from nearby villages.
Though there was some skepticism, the truth about the “lost tribe” of the Tasaday was not revealed until 1986, when Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos were removed from power.”
Many are called.... when needed for cash.. and a few are literally chosen.
www.livescience.com/strangenews/080625-tasaday-hoax.html
www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/great.htm
“Elizalde forced us to live in the caves so that we’d be better cavemen. ... The Tasaday Hoax led many anthropologists to reconsider how they deal with ...”
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A726653 -
Ok. but what do phillipine tasaday have to do with indonesian ebu gogo?