Eaving wrote:Earth boy looks like he might turn out to be a hobbit or something...
Only to a point do I see the semblance. Although it is said by Tolkien himself that they wear mostly green (having a noteable fondness for this colour and yellow) and have slightly pointed ears and I also believe they have certain facial characteristics that the two share, this is where it ends.
According to the prolouge of The Fellowship of the Ring, "...they [hobbits] seldom wore shoes, since their feet had tough leathery soles and were clad in a thick curling hair, much like the hair of their heads, which was commonly brown... they had long and skilful fingers and could make many... useful and comely things. Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beauriful, broad, bright-eyed, red-cheeeked, with mouths apt to laughter, and to eating and drinking." (J.R.R. Tolkien)