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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 03:16:49 -0800 (PST), JJ    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Dec 1, 6:52 am, Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> JRR Tolkien s Prologue to The Lord of the Rings contains a section titled   
   >> Concerning Hobbits, which tells us that the Harfoots (apparently   
   >> ancestors of the Bagginses and other Hobbits of the Shire) were browner   
   >> of skin than other Hobbits. It would seem that most Hobbits in the Third   
   >> Age might be considered people of color.   
      
   >Not really - they were agricultural labourers, accustomed to working   
   >outdoors all their lives, and so were tanned. You have to remember   
   >that the Shire was England several generations ago, when all the   
   >inhabitants were Caucasian; as indeed they were through most of   
   >Tolkien's lifetime.   
      
   Pakistanis are also Caucasian, and far closer to the Caucasus than Brits.   
      
      
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