Halflings

[Norkron Utúlië]

Boa noite, sou novo por aqui e tenho uma dúvida em relação aos halflings. Qual a diferença deles com os hobbits?

 

[Neoghoster Akira]

Olá, aqui tem explicações (em inglês) de como eram os altos Dunedain que chamavam os Hobbits de Halflings, mas que para os próprios Hobbits isto parecia ser ofensivo por não se considerarem "seres pela metade" e sim indivíduos inteiros:

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Halflings

Halflings was a name for Hobbits used by Men; it was originally given to them by the tall Dúnedain who had stood two rangar tall, making the average Hobbit about half their height. The term first applied to the Harfoots who became known in Arnor around T.A. 1050 and later to the Fallohides and the Stoors.[1]

The name was used by Gondorians in the Third Age, which they learned from their northern cousins although they knew them only by name; they never had seen a halfling, until Peregrin Took became the first who visited Minas Tirith. By the War of the Ring however, the Gondorians were shorter than their ancestors since the line of the Kings ended, and the halflings were more than half of their height.[1]

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Hobbits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfling

Halfling

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Halfling is another name for J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbit,[1] a fictional race found in some fantasy novels and games. They are often depicted as similar to humans except about half as tall. Dungeons & Dragons began using the name halfling as an alternative to hobbit[2] for legal reasons.[3]

Originally, "halfling" comes from the Scots word hauflin, meaning an awkward rustic teenager, who is neither man nor boy, and so half of both. Another word for halfling is "hobbledehoy" or "hobby". This usage of the word pre-dates both The Hobbit and Dungeons & Dragons.[4]

Some fantasy stories use the term halfling to describe a person born of a human parent and a parent of another race, often a human female and a male elf. Terry Brooks describes characters such as Shea Ohmsford from his Shannara series as a halfling of elf–human parentage. This kind of character is elsewhere called a half-elf and is distinct from the fantasy race known as halflings. In Jack Vance's Lyonesse series of novels, "halfling" is a generic term for beings such as fairies, trolls and ogres, who are composed of both magical and earthly substances.[5]

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Aplicados a indivíduos similares a humanos mas que tenham a metade da altura de um humano comum. A Wiki sugere a origem teria sido escocesa (hauflin) e que pre-data o livro (e filme) de O Hobbit.