I'm as much a fan of the mythical as anyone - look at my delusional and hypothetical life! But there is a line to be drawn, not in the sand, but a firm line in the scientific mortar twixt evolution, the realms of "Middle Earth", and the creative minds of Creationism. Hence, the application of "hobbit" to earthly hominid remains (oh sorry... singular... remain) is completely, utterly, and solely a condescension to and a diminution of not only the language that we vulgarly call "English" but of the discipline we arrogantly claim as science. Nevertheless to use the idiomatic creations of Tolkien (regardless of his literate brilliance) as descriptors of proposed hominid species, sub or otherwise, is evidence of the lunacy and inability of current "learn-ed" society to separate real from unreal.
Hobbit, my ass. It's ONE for Chet's sake and can we leave the politics and Peter Pan egos at the airlock?????
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