but rather that Halflings don't refer to themselves as "half" of anything. In fact, if you ask them, they're all the right size.
-9500Speculation is that the first non-dragon Races started to appear. Many believe that the dragons and Dragon Gods created these races.
Umm...maybe I'm misunderstanding the lore of Layonara a bit, but also couldn't we think that since it's believed by some that the dragon gods created the humanoid races of Layonara, that it was they that designated Halflings as Halflings, perhaps after previously creating Humans? That would actually make sense to me.-----Dragon god one: "Behold! My newest creation! Small, and stealthy, able to slip in places your larger Humans can't. But, what should I call them?"Dragon god two: "Indeed, a fine creation, probably one of our best. Hmmm... they are about half the height of those Humans, why not call them Halflings?"Dragon god one: "Right on! Halflings they are then!" *turning to the newly created and awakened Halfling* "Go now my little one and wreak havoc across the world with your irrepressible self! And know I name thee Halfling." *maniacle laughter*
...it came to be known that miniturization was perfected by Yappan...which was often mis-pronounced with a 'J' sound at the beginning....
Just a note:Hobbits is entirely a Tolkienian term (perhaps derived from hobs or hobgoblins, etc.), and probably is still copyrighted, whereas drow is probably either a corruption of dwarrow (the plural of dwarf in old english), or the Scottish trowe (troll), or the Irish drow, (a type of fomori), or some other British isles variant, but in any case has a clear folklore etymology.