Budokan, I’ll spare you the shame of revealing your true geekdom:
Imagine if the devil had a right hand man, and that right hand man took over once the devil went to hell. That’s Sauron.
Sauron played a trick on the leaders of the different races, and made them all magic rings. Unfortunately, he also made himself a master ring that controlled all the other rings, and their weilders.
Unfortunately, he lost a major battle and the ring was lost, along with a chunk of his power.
Here’s the fun part. The ring fell into the hands of a hobbit(halfling) who gave it to another hobbit(halfling) who would have liked to have discussed all these things rationally with Sauron, but Sauron was too busy giving his minions orders like “Bring me the rotted hand of that filthy hobbit” and “I want hobbits dead” and “Halfling schmaffling: if it has entrails, bring them to me!”
Thank you both very much for the explanations. I must admit i have only read The Hobbit and I guess I don’t remember any references to Halflings in it. I knew it was some little fantasy character thing but I never knew too much about the name other than it was given to me because im short. like a half person, you know.. halfling.. anyhow all i could think of when i got on here. thank you again.
for you all, i rub both my buddhas (head and tummy) and wish you good fortune, good nookie, good drinking and good resting this holiday season. and … GODD@MNIT BUDOKAN! i said I would do the rubbing! get your hands off me!
like a half person, you know.. halfling.. anyhow 
And…a surprise challenge fight with Rolls!:mad: