At 07:50 AM 6/13/2003 -0700, darkelf wrote:

>Heh.  One wonders why the dwarves chose a hobbit to be their thief, no?  A
>middle-class, well-to-do hobbit, a bunch of poor-but-noble-descended dwarves
>(at least Thorin was, but I thought the rest might have been, too)... hmm.  I
>feel a classist reading of Tolkien coming on.  
>
>darkelf, probably will make me unpopular

Why?  English society was (and still is to a certain extent) stratified and
very much class-conscious.  Tolkien couldn't help but be affected by that.

Veloci--makes sense to me--raptor


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