24th January 2006, 5:17 PM
Shorter than humans isn't Tolkeinian, but it isn't exactly odd either. Might I remind you of Santa's unpaid work force? Before LOTR movies came out, you could count on elves always being portrayed as about a meter in height, max.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)