Don't you wish you were a Hobbit? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Melkor89 · 12-21-2003, 05:50 PM

Don't you wish you were a Hobbit? I mean think about it. They live the most simple, happy lives. THey just plain enjoy living. They are sheltered and unknowledgable about all the evils of the world. THey live carefree. The world would be a better place if We were all a bit like the Shirefolk. What do you think?

The Perky Ent · 12-21-2003, 07:05 PM

There is no action. It would be nice but boring! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Rasputin · 12-21-2003, 07:40 PM

god no! they have no electricity and i would absolutly hate to think what a hobbit bathroom looks like [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Lyta_Underhill · 12-21-2003, 07:41 PM

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Don't you wish you were a Hobbit?

If I were a hobbit, I'd want to know a few Elves or seek the Ents or something like that, but I prefer the quiet life to constant conflict, so, yes, a Hobbit's life would be great! But I couldn't live without an Art to pursue or without the possibility of thoughts outside the realm in which I would live... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Oh yes, and I'd like to be independently wealthy! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Cheers,
Lyta

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Rasputin · 12-21-2003, 07:51 PM

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But I couldn't live without an Art to pursue or without the possibility of thoughts outside the realm in which I would live...

well you could be like that bilbo baggins. i hear he's cracked he is.

Gorwingel · 12-21-2003, 07:57 PM

Would I like to be a hobbit? *thinks* Well I don't know, I think it would personally be just a little too boring of a life for me. I am a traveler, I love to go everywhere and anywhere, and I get really bored when I have to spend a long time in the same place. I think I would rather be what I am, a human. But I do like their homes (or holes) [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Laitoste · 12-21-2003, 08:33 PM

I've always thought that I was most like a hobbit-but more like Bilbo or Frodo. I wouldn't mind being one!

12-22-2003, 03:07 AM

I would difinately like to be a hobbit. Just plain and simple life in the Shire, where the discussions are about pipe weed and relations. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Fíriel of Ao Tea Roa · 12-22-2003, 04:38 AM

I find it difficult enough to fit into man´s armour. And all the arrows would be far too long to be drawn with Hobbit´s arm length. Nah, Hobbits are better off with me defending them as I am.

Though I wouldn´t mind curly hair.

Phervasaion · 12-22-2003, 07:15 AM

It would be good not having a care in the world and living my life hapily. But like other people have said it may get slightly boring and I would want more adventure.

dragoneyes · 12-22-2003, 08:06 AM

A hobbit's life boring? Someone looking at our lives could easily say that. The last exciting thing that I did was hunting nearly six weeks ago and hobbits could do that. I'd love to be a hobbit, I love physical work and cooking and running around and bare feet and I really don't see how a hobbit's life could be any more boring than mine. I doubt even the average Gondorian had a very exciting life outside of the War of the Ring.

Melkor89 · 12-22-2003, 11:38 AM

thaks for all your interesting and deep answers..........keep em coming y'all

lord_of_rohan2003 · 12-22-2003, 11:44 AM

Sure why not?If there is one major thing I would miss from the real world,it would be my air conditioner during those hot scorching summer months(being out in the heat to long makes me sick as a dog)But hey I rarely watch t.v as it is,noone else would have computers so I wouldn't need one,I preffer to cook from scratch anyway so I dont care about not having a microwave,I hate wearing shoes,having no car would be a bummer but walking is good exercise especially if your going to have the diet of a hobbit.So hey where do I sign up at?

Iris Alantiel · 12-22-2003, 12:25 PM

I admit it - I've actually always wished I was a hobbit. It would be the perfect life for me. Probably about 95% of the things that give me stress in my life would be completely eliminated, and I could spend my time doing all the things that I never have time to do to relax, like baking pies and growing flowers. I wouldn't find it hard to live without cars and computers and phones - well, maybe without phones, at least at first, but I would get used to it, and then I'd be a perfect hobbit. I'm already shorter than everybody else anyway, and if I was a hobbit, at least I would be living in a hobbit sized world instead of in this world where everything and everyone is too tall for me! And hobbits seem like generally a friendly kind of folk, more or less, which I think would be quite wonderful.

Actually the more I think about it, the more I like the idea. If anyone's looking for me, I'll be in the Shire.

Enedbelethiel · 12-25-2003, 03:35 AM

I would normally agree and say that I would be all for being a hobbit, but I think I'm pretty partial to elves. I was always under the impression that Tolkien described the elves as being able to experience the most wonderful joy - more so than any other creature. But leading a hobbit's life definitely sounds good to me, too [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Shire Flower · 12-27-2003, 03:35 AM

I probably would love being a hobbit. I like the sense of community and tons of relatives and all the eating, dancing and parties. Though I have been sort of spoiled by modern conveniences, if I had been born in the Shire, those things wouldn't bother me because I wouldn't know of their existance. Since life would be more simple, I probably would have less worries. And who needs adventure when you've got lots of juicy local gossip (like that mad Baggins for instance)?

However, if I were a hobbit, I would like to be the average height for a hobbit. Being a short hobbit would be, well, really, really strange. It would be like being half a halfling. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

Lathriel · 12-27-2003, 08:01 PM

Don't need to ask me again. Of course I do. I have wanted to be hobbit ever since i first read the Hobbit. Their life is so simple and they don't have to do Algebra!or all that math crap. Well maybe stuff like 12 +36.
Yep gonna be a hobbit in my next life! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Firefoot · 12-27-2003, 08:50 PM

You bet I would like to be a hobbit! That would be so cool. Shire Flower, I agree with you 100%. Half a halfling, lol. Life would be simple and - barefeet all the way! Yep, hobbit's life is the life for me.

Knight of Gondor · 12-27-2003, 10:06 PM

Afraid not. I'd not be quite as content just living out a peaceful life. It's not in my nature to be content with my own doings and not be involved with the world's. Plus, I'd hate being short! Nay, my friend, I would say I'm suited best to be just what I said, a Knight of Gondor. Although I don't like that clunky-looking armor they wear. I'd prefer the clothes such as Boromir wore...nice, drapy, with a chain mail shirt underneath for protection. However, I am in love with Aragorn's two swords more than Boromir's, which I think is somewhat short. I like the two-handed ones best.

But my apologies, this isn't about Knights. In answer, no. I would prefer to live and defend the world of men. And maybe defend the world of hobbits as well!

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Niluial · 12-28-2003, 05:00 AM

I would love to be a hobbit and lead a straightforward life. No one cares what you look like, you can be as fat as you wish meaning eating as much as hobbits do. I would give up my life for a hobbit life any day. A hobbit life might be boring but not as boring as our lives. A hobbit can go on picnics, fishing, cook, eat, sleep and smoke pipes all day… a faultless life. I would love to be a Took though, the more adventurous type. They drink pints all the time, so I bet they are tipsy half there lives (nothing wrong with that!). Having a hobbits life would be ideal!

~Niluial

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One of the Nine · 12-29-2003, 03:56 PM

If I could be a hobbit, and choose who I could be, I would definitely be Frodo! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] It would be cool to go to Mordor. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]
Just kidding...

Kalimac · 12-29-2003, 04:57 PM

It would probably be great fun until an ear infection or burst appendix came along. Don't think I'd trade this life for that, though.

elenquesse · 12-29-2003, 05:47 PM

I think being a hobbit would be okay for a while, but I'm more the Bilbo type, actually interested in the world around me. I love books, and I do enjoy more intelligent thought than how this year's crop is growing. Although...I wouldn't mind not having to wear socks or shoes anywhere. And eating six meals a day.

Rilwen Gamgee · 12-29-2003, 08:16 PM

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I could spend my time doing all the things that I never have time to do to relax, like baking pies and growing flowers.

Yes, otherwise, I'd have cookies in the oven and a bright, blooming garden right now...

Hehe! I would love to be a Hobbit! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] It has been one of my dreams since I became a Ringie. I could sit around, take a walk, not care about the troubles of the world, and appreciate the simple life. The only doubt is about medical care, but otherwise, yo-ho, yo-ho, a Hobbit's life for me! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Edit: Wait! Without computers I woudn't be able to come here! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 12:55 PM December 30, 2003: Message edited by: Rilwen Gamgee ]

Trippo The Hippo · 12-29-2003, 08:19 PM

I wouldn't trade this life for that of a hobbit. But of all the lives in ME I would pick the hobbit.

Angadraug · 12-30-2003, 11:35 PM

I'd definitly love to be a hobbit. I can easily go without electricity, t.v., phones, all that good stuff. The hobbits style of living looks like so much fun. And if the shire looked anything like it did in the movies how could you not want to be a hobbit. I mean look at the place, it was beautiful. Also I think it would be really cool to have a house that is built into a hill.

Olorin_TLA · 12-31-2003, 10:02 AM

Just need an apple-gun to get rid of Sandyman, then I'll be sorted. *locksandloads*

12-31-2003, 10:25 AM

No way. They don´t have computers. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Seriously? Hmm, I´m not really the person for quiet country life. Being a hobbit would be fun for awhile, I think I´d get bored quickly. I´d much rather live in Minas Tirth, or Edoras, a large city with stuff happening, and interesting people from everywhere coming along. I´m a curious person, and a bunch of people who are only interested in Mr Bracegirdle´s new cow would probably frustrate me quickly. But then, i can´t be sure of a hobbit life untill I´ve tried it out...so if anyone of you has booked a tour of the Shire, email me, okay? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

peonydeepdelver · 12-31-2003, 10:25 AM

I'd love it!

Admit it; the round doors and windows are just irresistible. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Kalimac · 12-31-2003, 03:31 PM

I'd say that since being a hobbit implies that you're born as a hobbit, electricity and stuff probably shouldn't factor into it so much - you would never have had them, and so wouldn't miss them. And in a way, you'd have the most comfortable standard of living in ME - I don't see even most Gondorians as possessing luxuries like tea-kettles [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. And you'd probably be a bit of a homebody by nature, unless of course you were a Took, and then you'd have the privilege of being well-off and well-placed enough that you'd have the time (and the money!) to go off on travels. So you'd be pretty well set.

I still don't think I'd do it, though - hobbits are long-lived in general, but their medicine still seems a touch too rudimentary. Granted, you don't miss things like pills and x-rays if you've never experienced them, but still...being ill and basically having to trust to nature for the cure is not at all fun.

12-21-2003, 05:50 PM	#1
Melkor89 Pile O'Bones Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: That aint your buisness Posts: 17	Don't you wish you were a Hobbit? Don't you wish you were a Hobbit? I mean think about it. They live the most simple, happy lives. THey just plain enjoy living. They are sheltered and unknowledgable about all the evils of the world. THey live carefree. The world would be a better place if We were all a bit like the Shirefolk. What do you think? __________________ "This shall be my own kingdom; and I name it unto myself!"

12-21-2003, 07:05 PM	#2
The Perky Ent Maniacal Mage Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Setting sail for Umbar, with Firefoot at my side! Posts: 3,297	There is no action. It would be nice but boring! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ 'But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.'

12-21-2003, 07:57 PM	#6
Gorwingel Beholder of the Mists Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Somewhere in the Northwest... for now Posts: 1,419	Would I like to be a hobbit? thinks Well I don't know, I think it would personally be just a little too boring of a life for me. I am a traveler, I love to go everywhere and anywhere, and I get really bored when I have to spend a long time in the same place. I think I would rather be what I am, a human. But I do like their homes (or holes) [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Wanted - Wonderfully witty quote that consists of pure brilliance

12-21-2003, 08:33 PM	#7
Laitoste Wight Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Behind the hills Posts: 164	I've always thought that I was most like a hobbit-but more like Bilbo or Frodo. I wouldn't mind being one! __________________ "If we're still alive in the morning, we'll know that we're not dead."~South Park

12-22-2003, 04:38 AM	#9
Fíriel of Ao Tea Roa Pile O'Bones Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Ao Tea Roa Posts: 20	I find it difficult enough to fit into man´s armour. And all the arrows would be far too long to be drawn with Hobbit´s arm length. Nah, Hobbits are better off with me defending them as I am. Though I wouldn´t mind curly hair. __________________ Ú i vethed nâ i onnad.

12-21-2003, 07:40 PM	#3
Rasputin Pile O'Bones Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 23	god no! they have no electricity and i would absolutly hate to think what a hobbit bathroom looks like [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

12-22-2003, 03:07 AM	#8
Feredir Guest Posts: n/a	I would difinately like to be a hobbit. Just plain and simple life in the Shire, where the discussions are about pipe weed and relations. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

12-22-2003, 07:15 AM	#10
Phervasaion Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: The wilderness of Middle-Earth Posts: 306	It would be good not having a care in the world and living my life hapily. But like other people have said it may get slightly boring and I would want more adventure. __________________ Phervasaion

12-22-2003, 08:06 AM	#11
dragoneyes Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Completely lost track, sorry! Posts: 733	A hobbit's life boring? Someone looking at our lives could easily say that. The last exciting thing that I did was hunting nearly six weeks ago and hobbits could do that. I'd love to be a hobbit, I love physical work and cooking and running around and bare feet and I really don't see how a hobbit's life could be any more boring than mine. I doubt even the average Gondorian had a very exciting life outside of the War of the Ring. __________________ "We might succeed in roasting Pippin alive inside." - Frodo.

12-22-2003, 11:38 AM	#12
Melkor89 Pile O'Bones Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: That aint your buisness Posts: 17	thaks for all your interesting and deep answers..........keep em coming y'all __________________ "This shall be my own kingdom; and I name it unto myself!"

12-22-2003, 11:44 AM	#13
lord_of_rohan2003 Animated Skeleton Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Rohan Posts: 50	Sure why not?If there is one major thing I would miss from the real world,it would be my air conditioner during those hot scorching summer months(being out in the heat to long makes me sick as a dog)But hey I rarely watch t.v as it is,noone else would have computers so I wouldn't need one,I preffer to cook from scratch anyway so I dont care about not having a microwave,I hate wearing shoes,having no car would be a bummer but walking is good exercise especially if your going to have the diet of a hobbit.So hey where do I sign up at?

12-22-2003, 12:25 PM	#14
Iris Alantiel Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Valinor Posts: 97	I admit it - I've actually always wished I was a hobbit. It would be the perfect life for me. Probably about 95% of the things that give me stress in my life would be completely eliminated, and I could spend my time doing all the things that I never have time to do to relax, like baking pies and growing flowers. I wouldn't find it hard to live without cars and computers and phones - well, maybe without phones, at least at first, but I would get used to it, and then I'd be a perfect hobbit. I'm already shorter than everybody else anyway, and if I was a hobbit, at least I would be living in a hobbit sized world instead of in this world where everything and everyone is too tall for me! And hobbits seem like generally a friendly kind of folk, more or less, which I think would be quite wonderful. Actually the more I think about it, the more I like the idea. If anyone's looking for me, I'll be in the Shire. __________________ Above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars forever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell. -- Samwise Gamgee

12-25-2003, 03:35 AM	#15
Enedbelethiel Animated Skeleton Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Imladris Posts: 26	I would normally agree and say that I would be all for being a hobbit, but I think I'm pretty partial to elves. I was always under the impression that Tolkien described the elves as being able to experience the most wonderful joy - more so than any other creature. But leading a hobbit's life definitely sounds good to me, too [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ Not all who wander are lost...

12-27-2003, 03:35 AM	#16
Shire Flower Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 25	I probably would love being a hobbit. I like the sense of community and tons of relatives and all the eating, dancing and parties. Though I have been sort of spoiled by modern conveniences, if I had been born in the Shire, those things wouldn't bother me because I wouldn't know of their existance. Since life would be more simple, I probably would have less worries. And who needs adventure when you've got lots of juicy local gossip (like that mad Baggins for instance)? However, if I were a hobbit, I would like to be the average height for a hobbit. Being a short hobbit would be, well, really, really strange. It would be like being half a halfling. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]

12-27-2003, 08:01 PM	#17
Lathriel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Wandering through Middle-Earth (Sadly in Alberta and not ME) Posts: 612	Don't need to ask me again. Of course I do. I have wanted to be hobbit ever since i first read the Hobbit. Their life is so simple and they don't have to do Algebra!or all that math crap. Well maybe stuff like 12 +36. Yep gonna be a hobbit in my next life! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] __________________ Back again

12-27-2003, 08:50 PM	#18
Firefoot Illusionary Holbytla Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 7,547	You bet I would like to be a hobbit! That would be so cool. Shire Flower, I agree with you 100%. Half a halfling, lol. Life would be simple and - barefeet all the way! Yep, hobbit's life is the life for me.

12-27-2003, 10:06 PM	#19
Knight of Gondor Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 744	Afraid not. I'd not be quite as content just living out a peaceful life. It's not in my nature to be content with my own doings and not be involved with the world's. Plus, I'd hate being short! Nay, my friend, I would say I'm suited best to be just what I said, a Knight of Gondor. Although I don't like that clunky-looking armor they wear. I'd prefer the clothes such as Boromir wore...nice, drapy, with a chain mail shirt underneath for protection. However, I am in love with Aragorn's two swords more than Boromir's, which I think is somewhat short. I like the two-handed ones best. But my apologies, this isn't about Knights. In answer, no. I would prefer to live and defend the world of men. And maybe defend the world of hobbits as well! <font size=1 color=339966>[ 12:23 AM December 30, 2003: Message edited by: Knight of Gondor ] __________________ Eagerly awaiting the REAL Return of the King - Jesus Christ! Revelation 19:11-16

12-28-2003, 05:00 AM	#20
Niluial Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: In the darkness of white Posts: 601	I would love to be a hobbit and lead a straightforward life. No one cares what you look like, you can be as fat as you wish meaning eating as much as hobbits do. I would give up my life for a hobbit life any day. A hobbit life might be boring but not as boring as our lives. A hobbit can go on picnics, fishing, cook, eat, sleep and smoke pipes all day… a faultless life. I would love to be a Took though, the more adventurous type. They drink pints all the time, so I bet they are tipsy half there lives (nothing wrong with that!). Having a hobbits life would be ideal! ~Niluial <font size=1 color=339966>[ 6:02 AM December 28, 2003: Message edited by: Niluial ] __________________ Life is not about how many breaths you take but about how many times it leaves you breathless. My rants, moans and groans in other words my Blog My Magical Site

12-29-2003, 03:56 PM	#21
One of the Nine Haunting Spirit Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In my mind. What? Why are you looking at me like that? Posts: 84	If I could be a hobbit, and choose who I could be, I would definitely be Frodo! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] It would be cool to go to Mordor. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] Just kidding... __________________ I have a very short attention span, and it sometimes affects me when I'm, ooo a squirrel....

12-29-2003, 04:57 PM	#22
Kalimac Candle of the Marshes Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Flyover Country Posts: 780	It would probably be great fun until an ear infection or burst appendix came along. Don't think I'd trade this life for that, though. __________________ Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.

12-29-2003, 05:47 PM	#23
elenquesse Pile O'Bones Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Gardens of Ithilien Posts: 19	I think being a hobbit would be okay for a while, but I'm more the Bilbo type, actually interested in the world around me. I love books, and I do enjoy more intelligent thought than how this year's crop is growing. Although...I wouldn't mind not having to wear socks or shoes anywhere. And eating six meals a day. __________________ "The hands of a king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known." ~Ioreth~

12-29-2003, 08:19 PM	#25
Trippo The Hippo Wight Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: somewhere with hippos that say jolly o and wear spectacles Posts: 195	I wouldn't trade this life for that of a hobbit. But of all the lives in ME I would pick the hobbit. __________________ Shouldn't he be the disco steward?

12-30-2003, 11:35 PM	#26
Angadraug Animated Skeleton Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mirkwood Posts: 44	I'd definitly love to be a hobbit. I can easily go without electricity, t.v., phones, all that good stuff. The hobbits style of living looks like so much fun. And if the shire looked anything like it did in the movies how could you not want to be a hobbit. I mean look at the place, it was beautiful. Also I think it would be really cool to have a house that is built into a hill.

12-31-2003, 10:02 AM	#27
Olorin_TLA Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Gardens of Lórien, Valinor. Posts: 420	Just need an apple-gun to get rid of Sandyman, then I'll be sorted. locksandloads __________________ "For I am Olórin! And Olórin means me!" ELENDIL! - Join "Forth Tolkiengas!"

12-31-2003, 10:25 AM	#28
Emma Woodhouse Guest Posts: n/a	No way. They don´t have computers. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Seriously? Hmm, I´m not really the person for quiet country life. Being a hobbit would be fun for awhile, I think I´d get bored quickly. I´d much rather live in Minas Tirth, or Edoras, a large city with stuff happening, and interesting people from everywhere coming along. I´m a curious person, and a bunch of people who are only interested in Mr Bracegirdle´s new cow would probably frustrate me quickly. But then, i can´t be sure of a hobbit life untill I´ve tried it out...so if anyone of you has booked a tour of the Shire, email me, okay? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

12-31-2003, 10:25 AM	#29
peonydeepdelver Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alas, I hail from Massachusetts Posts: 256	I'd love it! Admit it; the round doors and windows are just irresistible. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ "Nazgul, Nazgul! You speak of what is deep beyond the reach of your muddy dreams, Ugluk! Nazgul! Ah! All that they make out! One day you'll wish that you had not said that. Ape! You ought to know that they're the apple of the Great Eye." ~Grishnakh

12-31-2003, 03:31 PM	#30
Kalimac Candle of the Marshes Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Flyover Country Posts: 780	I'd say that since being a hobbit implies that you're born as a hobbit, electricity and stuff probably shouldn't factor into it so much - you would never have had them, and so wouldn't miss them. And in a way, you'd have the most comfortable standard of living in ME - I don't see even most Gondorians as possessing luxuries like tea-kettles [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. And you'd probably be a bit of a homebody by nature, unless of course you were a Took, and then you'd have the privilege of being well-off and well-placed enough that you'd have the time (and the money!) to go off on travels. So you'd be pretty well set. I still don't think I'd do it, though - hobbits are long-lived in general, but their medicine still seems a touch too rudimentary. Granted, you don't miss things like pills and x-rays if you've never experienced them, but still...being ill and basically having to trust to nature for the cure is not at all fun. __________________ Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.