> 
> 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
> 
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> 
> Yep.  Interestingly, to me at least, is that the dwarves rather looked down
> on Bilbo (weak, middle class, and not really an adventurer) and he rather
> looks down upon them (not of the Shire, don't you know?).  Neither group was
> quite the equal of the other, in their own opinions.
> 

Ah, the tension between aristocracy and middle class... (oversimplified, maybe,
but good enough).  And then we have the servant, Sam, in LoTR... complete with
a 'lower class' accent, to further complicate the mess.  

darkelf, who just loves Tolkien


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