"Who are you?," the hobittess asked.
"We are travellers, just like you," you start to say but then stop at the disapproving look of the woman.
"You make a strange couple," she says as she raises her hand. In an instant, the hobbit children had disapeared and every adult is grabbing a dagger, a cleaver or a sling. "Two centuries ago," the hobitess coninues, "you humans stole our land. Two days ago one of your kind stole our food...
"It was a Grand Casserole a la Perpignan," interrupted an indignant youngster.
"And now, are you robbers too? You are too well armed to be a common traveller, and your child seems too...
"Oh he's cute, with that chubby legs, for a human," hushed an elder hobbitess
"Boy, where did you get those clothes from?"