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It'd be amusing to try to trace legends of "little people" to incidence of these particular mushrooms. Not sure how you'd do that though.
by nl 6mo ago
It'd be amusing to try to trace legends of "little people" to incidence of these particular mushrooms. Not sure how you'd do that though.
- irishcoffee 6mo agoJ.R.R. Tolkien was on it a long time ago, now that you mention it. If you recall the opening chapters of the book, Merry and Pippin (referred to as 'little people' by various characters in the trilogy) are running away from an angry farmer... because they stole his mushrooms. As an aside, they didn't make it home from their mushroom-stealing afternoon until the end of the the series.
- philipwhiuk 6mo agoLOTR is a sequel to the Hobbit however, so 'the first few chapters' are already after the lore previously written. And in the hobbit there was already pipe smoking folks (although it's less emphasised probably because it was written as more as a book for children - or at least a child).
- irishcoffee 6mo ago> LOTR is a sequel to the Hobbit however, so 'the first few chapters' are already after the lore previously written. I mean sure, he wrote the lore sitting in trenches during a war, most of the universe was sorted out before he wrote _The Hobbit_ at all. I was, I thought clearly but I guess not, specifically referring to the Trilogy.
- staticman2 6mo agoHobbits are between two and four feet tall. I think the "little people" in the article are more fairy sized or smaller. The BBC article linked to at that article says they were seen on dishes.
- bitcurious 6mo ago>fairy sized This isn't as helpful a unit of measure as you imagined when you wrote that, fyi.
- staticman2 6mo agoGood point. I meant like Tinkerbell.
- triage8004 6mo agoLegendary trip