A new name for Halflings? Help?

AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:52 am

So I love the term Halfling as an insult to Hobbits, but as Tolkien Enterprises won't let anyone use that name, should I ever publish I want a better name for them.

Nelwyns by Lucas was too fancy or something and I know someone out there used Bobbits (pre John Wayne Bobbit I am sure) and that just seems lazy to me.

So I turn to the creative folks I know.

Any ideas?
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:41 am

Mini's?

You could pretty much come up with anything.

Falwyn's.

Altreeds.

Jainars.

Anything.
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Sir Ironside · Post by **Sir Ironside** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:47 am

Well, take the world you created, then give them the name of the area they hail from. Not unlike people from the U.S. are called Americans, Canada they are Canadians, U.K. the British or the Brits, Australia are called Aussies... I'm sure you get the idea.
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Fat Dragon Games · Post by **Fat Dragon Games** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:26 am

Cannon fodder?
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Sir Osis of Liver · Post by **Sir Osis of Liver** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:06 pm

Catapult ammo?

Deogolf · Post by **Deogolf** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:57 pm

Halfmans.
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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:23 pm

I know TSR uses this term for them in the Gazetteer series of Mystara books, but I have always been partial to Hin.

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Post by **Breakdaddy** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:05 pm

They have been called hin, warrow, halflings, hobbits, baenhaeve, kender, pech (out of the way, peck! -Mad Mardigan).

Steerpike · Post by **Steerpike** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:06 pm

You could have gangsta halflings called Fiddy Percent.
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jaybird216 · Post by **jaybird216** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:34 pm

How about Fro-toes?

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dachda · Post by **dachda** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:57 pm

Manlings?
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Go0gleplex · Post by **Go0gleplex** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:37 pm

Minimoids!
Oh wait...that was Arthur..and they were only an inch or so tall...
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Sir Osis of Liver · Post by **Sir Osis of Liver** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:10 pm

Ogre hors d'oeuvres?

Technomancer · Post by **Technomancer** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:10 pm

Two-quarterlings?

Sir Osis of Liver · Post by **Sir Osis of Liver** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:11 pm

Troll tooth picks?

Sir Osis of Liver · Post by **Sir Osis of Liver** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:12 pm

4-bit demi-humans with overactive foot hair follicles?

Sir Ironside · Post by **Sir Ironside** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:35 pm

Go0gleplex wrote:
Minimoids!

How about Minime's?

Oh wait...
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Joe · Post by **Joe** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:59 pm

Dwarves...no thats taken.

How about midgits?

Endtables?

Beer props?

Crotchnose?
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AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:12 pm

Why do I even ask... sigh...
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:31 pm

Is there a specific melisma sought for a defined milieu? If so, start with words of the real world that have the appropriate sense, and then modify them... for example, if you want a small sounding French word, you might begin with petite, and then slightly alter it, to get petty, or pet. Heh. Bad example, but the idea is the concern.
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:41 pm

Aldwyn

Neederfolk

Getterlings

Shinn
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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:24 pm

I submit to you: Troll Snacks.

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Go0gleplex · Post by **Go0gleplex** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:38 pm

Gelflings!

Going a lil bit from what Serl said... Pars meaning part... homo meaning man (quiet in the peanut gallery! ) Gives you Parshomo meaning half-man. A shortened version might be Parsho singular, Parshi plural.
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dunbruha · Post by **dunbruha** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:03 am

Hairytoes.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:27 am

Go0gleplex wrote:
Gelflings!

Going a lil bit from what Serl said... Pars meaning part... homo meaning man (quiet in the peanut gallery! ) Gives you Parshomo meaning half-man. A shortened version might be Parsho singular, Parshi plural.

I like that one.
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AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:32 am

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"

That's magical.
That's what I am trying to find a word that is English (as in British) sensible and not too over produced.

All I got is Bobbin which is a pet name for a child.
Keep throwing them out there, one's gotta stick.
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Frost · Post by **Frost** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:13 am

Breakdaddy wrote:
They have been called hin, warrow, halflings, hobbits, baenhaeve, kender, pech (out of the way, peck! -Mad Mardigan).

Out of the way, peck!

I love that line. We've used "peck" as an insult in every campaign since that movie. (Not bad for a line said by some random, soldier).
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Traveller · Post by **Traveller** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:50 am

Floresiens, named after Homo floresiensis.
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Go0gleplex · Post by **Go0gleplex** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:03 am

dimidius means half

magnitudo means size

So from this could come a bastardized Magdi.

Or Dimag (don't thing you want Dimagnit :} )

Using homo for man again you

could also get a shortened Homodim, plural Homodimi...further shortening this could come Homodi or Homdi

using pars again...

you could get Magpars or Parmagnit or even Parma. plural Parmai.

I'm tapped.
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Jackal · Post by **Jackal** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:44 am

AslanC wrote:
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"

That's magical.
That's what I am trying to find a word that is English (as in British) sensible and not too over produced.

All I got is Bobbin which is a pet name for a child.
Keep throwing them out there, one's gotta stick.

Bobbin seems great to me. It has a real world reference that will instantly give folks a mental image. Assuming there is no Britain in your campaign, the characters wouldn't think it odd that a British word snuck into their world.
Question though; since when can't we use halfling? People other than TSR/WoTC and Tolkien have been using that (and things like Ent, etc) all over the place for years.
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