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Hobbit Is A New Species
Migraineman writes "Over the last year or so, archaeologists in Indonesia unearthed skulls and bones from eight proto-humanoids. Critics have claimed the meter-tall specimens were either pygmies or "aberrant individuals with a pathological condition" like microcephaly. A recent article in Science[subscription] rebuffs the critics, and claims that the specimens are actually a new species - Homo floresiensis. There's a summary article over at Nature."
Frodo died???
Could this be the infamous missing link?
Homo Florescent lights?
I wonder if they found anything buried in its pocketses.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
the island of flores saw the amazing uptick in tourism that new zealand experienced after the lord of the rings movie trilogy, and so that island's tourism proponents decided that they could get in on the tolkien tourism bandwagon too
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I for one welcome our new Hobbit-humaniod overl... Oh nevermind.
Scientific name: Bilbous Bagginsis
Common name: Tricksy Hobbitses
I truly believe these little people are the early prototype of ancient time traveling alien/human hybrid race. These people are the result of an extra-terrestial alien race mating with primates. The aliens have left but they will be back to check on our progress.
Living examples of this species were discovered in 1970 in New Guinea and named the Tropi. There was a whole court case about it, whether the Tropi were human or not.
Of course!
But what, then, happened to all the elves?
And, I might add, so much for all that "Undying Lands" talk.
Free as in speech, free as in beer, or free as in lunch?
Just think... once, in a strange land millions of years ago, beings much like us looked up and dreamed that someday, somehow, they would reach the treetops.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
And they laughed at me for saying that Middle Earth didn't exist.... soon any day now they will find Orc fossils and roaving bands of Uruk-hai will crush the bones of obese Americans...
Dammit get those pills and that straight jacket away from me!!!
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But what, then, happened to all the elves?
Continental drift. The undying lands ended up at the north pole.
Didn't you wonder where they sailed off to at the end of the book? There you go.
They are not a new species! They were an old species of dinosaur toe cheese.
The One Ring was destroyed in Mount Doom, leaving the door open for a new cycle of books with a new ring forged in Mount Half-Life.
...then it will all make sense.
TFA didn't have it, but there's an artist's rendering of this species here (from http://www.mi.uib.no/~respl/tolkien/mapdocs/index2 .html)
Everyone knows Valinor was in New Zealand. Maybe when Mt Doom blew up, it spewed Smeagol's remains to Indonesia, and that's what thay found...
I wish i had mod points right now.
they discovered what happened to the Oompa Loompas after Willy Wonka was done with them and Charlie took over the Chocolate Factory. Apparently Charlie tried to hide the bodies, but they were eventually found.
Charley Bucket was quoted as saying "I got tired of hearing the same songs sung day after day, so I got rid of them." Apparently Charley was still taking advice from his Grampa Joe who is known as a very shady character.
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Frodo Lives! err... Lived!
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
Homo? That explains Merry and Pippen. Wait...nothing could possibly explain Merry and Pippen.
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An imaginitive anthropologist would have named them Homo suzensis or Homo pedevillosi or something like that. Or possibly Homo tolkieni. But no, we get floresiensis which makes them sound like they had sound tooth enamel or something.
And the brethren went away edified.
Zeno! Zeno of Eleas! Is that you? I thought you were lost! It's me, Empedocles of Acagras! Fancy meeting you here!
Creatures with chimp-sized brains and rudimentary ability to use tools, surviving into the modern times? Presposterous.
Although, now that I think about it, this would explain a lot of posts on slashdot...
I believe the universe was sneezed out the nose of the Great Green Arkleseizure. Repent, the Coming of the Handkerchief is upon us!