User:Baggins5154/Halfling

A halfling (hobbit):
"I may not exist yet, but I will, just as soon as I submit this resume to Blizzard".

Halfling is a race that does not exist in the Warcraft universe as separate from Gnomes. The Dungeons & Dragons version was not adapted to the Warcraft RPG as it was deemed that they did not fit into the Warcraft setting.

Notes

• Halfling is the common name used by humans for the Hobbit race in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth stories; most notably The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's Hobbits are generally rural farmers and not particularly adventurous.

• Similar half-sized races predate J.R.R. Tolkien's books, and remain popular in the post-Tolkien fantasy genre. Other names for halflings include Gnomes, Hin, Hobbits, Kender, Pecwae, Ratlings, Warrows & Wee-folk.
  • Such races are the focus of the Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows & Weefolk anthology.

• Halfling is one of the standard playable races in the D&D RPG settings, where it is specifically a different race than Gnomes. In the original version of D&D they were Hobbits by name, but threats of legal action forced a name change to the generic halfling.
  • Over the course of the three editions of AD&D and D&D 4th Edition, the race has further diverged from Tolkien's vision. With the Dark Sun game world portraying them as cannibalistic barbarians, and the core game portraying them as adventurous acrobats.