I have nothing against Hobbits per se. They are kind, gentle, industrious but not ridiculous about it like dwarves, enduring, and merry. Hobbits are one of the great literary creations. They are firmly related to the tomte, nisse, and other Hob type creatures that are descended from our ancient household gods. So what's not to like?
In the game Lord of the Rings online (a fine game by the way), the Hobbits are extremely ill-proportioned. They have legs that are too short and when they run it is in a comical waddle. Their pelvic girdle is obviously out of whack and forces them to swing their hips around like midget wrestlers. Anyone who looks at them cannot help but think, 'something is congenitally wrong here' but they have not fixed the obvious.
I understand that the makers of the game had to use some human model to create Hobbits, we of course in the darker, noisier, dirtier age do not have Hobbits posing for portraits or modeling for us. However, they could have used healthy humans as their model. The pygmies of Asia and Africa are small, slight, and move in a natural fashion. Or, use people of average height and build and then scale them down. It is not rocket surgery, anyone can see that the poor Hobbit toons of LOTRO would quickly fatigue when running. Worse, they would have bad backs, hip joints that burned like fire, and troubles with other muscular skeletal issues.
It is a relatively easy fix. Find new models or simply scale down the human model they are using now. Next, the degradation that is Dwarves.
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