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   From: joseph@nospam.com   
      
   "Andrew F. Donnell"  wrote in message   
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   > Joseph wrote:   
   >   
   > > The goal was never to simply have   
   >> the ring destroyed, but rather to have *man* destroy the ring.   
   >   
   > "Man! Indeed not! I am a hobbit!"   
   Hobbits are evidently related to Men, and are represented as a pygmy   
   offshoot of that race. Their exact origin is unknown, but by the early Third   
   Age they were living in the Vales of Anduin in Wilderland.   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit   
      
   - Joseph   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)