So why are they not ALL browner of skin ?????????

Even Tom Bombadil has Brown skin 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@ointment9If people lost their minds over 2 or 3 black characters that barely has any film 🎥 time imagine how they would react if they made them all black.

Glad you enjoyed it, Usha!

I agree, great video and references to maps. I’m not sure if Hobbits were really afraid of “The Big Folk” as they’re being depicted in RoP. Hobbits lived and worked side by side with Men and Dwarves in Bree for generations. I think Hobbits in The Shire just kept to themselves and thought anyone who wasn’t a Hobbit just strange and not part of their community.

I think during the period that the books are primarily set in, the Hobbits had grown more complacent in their wariness of Men, due to the fact that they are a long way from the influence of Mordor and, more importantly, under the protection of the Dúnedain rangers -- though this was unknown to the vast majority of them, it created a false sense of security. Men can be stupid, wicked and corruptible, and they're physically bigger and stronger than halflings, so it makes sense for them to avoid interactions. But the above poster is also correct that there's an element of parochialism to their culture which excludes outsiders. And even extends to other Hobbits of The Shire, from different Hobbit communities, at a more local level; think of how the Hobbiton locals refer to the Bucklanders as "queer" in the early chapters to The Lord of the Rings.

Thank you both for your replies! 😊

@@TheHeroRises The Men of Bree were shorter than normal and had some Hobbit like qualities. Was the only town that the Hobbits traveled to where the big folk lived. Makes you think.

All great points. Dwarves are bigger than Hobbits and were involved in many wars like Men and Elves yet there was still interaction with them. There are the 3 breeds of Hobbits that each have their own behavioral and cultural quirks but most have all interbred that it’s just individual proclivities of a Hobbit - like Bilbo’s Took side taking over and wanting an adventure or his Baggins side wanting to just stay home and have plain Hobbit Sense. Lol. The Professor was basing The Shire on English villages of his time with all their attitudes to those within and without the community. That being said, even the different communities of Men were weary of each other. Breelanders and the Rangers. Rohan and Dunlendings.

I don’t really get the issue with that, the values of the simple pleasures and shit are still prevalent in the Harfoots but they live a more nomadic life, it’s like comparing cave men to medieval men of corse there’s gonna be substantial differences, identical peoples throughout history would honestly shitty world building