|
Хоббиты - ветвь расы Людей.
"The Hobbits are, of course, really meant to be a branch of the specifically human race" (авторские примечания к Письму 131).
"One of an imaginary people, a small variety of the human race, that gave themselves this name (meaning ‘hole-dweller’) but were called by others halflings, since they were half the height of normal Men." (Письмо 316)
"...and that my ‘hobbits’ were ... a diminutive branch of the human race." (Письмо 319).
__________________
«And it seems to the fairies and it seems to me who know that town and have often trodden its disfigured ways that autumn and the falling of the leaf is the season of the year when maybe here or there a heart among Men may be open, and an eye perceive how is the world's estate fallen from the laughter and the loveliness of old. Think on Kortirion and be sad - yet is there not hope?» J.R.R. Tolkien
|