The math checks out.
Also, never point a hobbit at anything you're not prepared to destroy, one way or another.
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The thing that makes the Scouring difficult is that there were a few hobbits on the OTHER SIDE and then they had to resolve that without DESTROYING MIDDLE-EARTH IN THE PROCESS. That's the part that was a Shire-sized problem. A nearby Maiar got killed by accident.
Wildbow's _Worm_ gets its up way up a seven-hobbit problem by the end. I'm not fucking joking, there's a reason everyone keeps talking about it as The Escalation Story.
MORGOTH BAUGLIR, the Great Enemy in Darkness, returns from his exile beyond the sky, and Eärendil himself sails with haste to the much diminished world, whereby he calls forth that almighty instrument of the second music: Four. Hobbits.
This is why the wars against morgoth took so long, hobbits hadn’t been invented yet
So Middle-earth basically had its own unit of destructive power: the hobbit. I’m starting to think four hobbits should count as a weapon of mass destruction.
I’d argue Saruman wasn’t really a 2 hobbit problem. The Ents, however, were. It took 2 hobbits to convince ancient tree shepherds to give up their quiet, peaceful existence and go to war with Saruman. Then the hobbits just went along for the ride while the Ents took down Saruman
Thorin Oakenshield knew the awesome power of the Hobbit and arranged terms.
That's just the precis'. The full contract can be found here:
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Sauron is not “The Devil Himself”, that would be Morgoth. Sauron would be more like Satan’s Herald.
Technically, the Witch King was a one-hobbit problem and then fixing Merry back up afterward was a separate one-hobbit problem.
Does that mean that a one-hobbit problem which nearly expends the hobbit is transitively a two-hobbit problem?
WRT the Scouring of the Shire. It is a whole new category of Problem BECAUSE hobbits were on both sides of the problem, however hesitant & lacking conviction they may have been. Hobbits don't like their odds against other hobbits. It's a chancy thing, makes you late for dinner.
This is a correct theory but their analysis is off. The ring was more of a one hobbit problem - Frodo 95% of the time and Sam 5%. Both individually dealing with it.
Gollum was the 6th problem and it took two hobbits to deal with him - though primarily Sam.
"The devil himself"
Sauron was only the devil's assistant; Melkor was never tested by hobbits.
The Balrog was a 4 hobbit problem. Gandalf fell to his doom because he didn’t use them.
Kind of a funny danger scale. 1, you’ll be fine(probably). 2, getting risky. 3, you’re done for. 4, never make them send four.
The Scouring of the Shire was absolutely a four-hobbit problem. It's not the mundane aftermath of the climax. It's the heart of the whole story
Tolkien's utterly accurate recognition that you can't just go home
(I'm already starting to see how I use 'one-hobbit problem' in RL)
This is why Hobbits prefer to stay in the Shire, they get asked to problem solve everything for everyone and they much rather not; which I can heavily relate to
I always get a chuckle out of the scene, the Nazghuls show up looking for Frodo get told he's as his cousins house they show up and the Hobbits start coming out of the bushes with their short bows and light the Nazghul up.
It makes that random bunch of thugs Saruman gathered together in the Shire look a lot more impressive. How does Bill Ferney scale next to the Witch King?
Never point a hobbit at food you don’t want eaten.
My husband found that out very quickly.
I’m gonna say the Scouring of the Shire doesn’t really count as a Hobbit problem (hear me out) as in every other instance it’s the hobbits leaving the shire to get involved in the worlds affairs (to end them) whereas the scouring takes place on hobbit home turf.
The fox knew something big was about to happen when he saw several hobbits sleeping in the woods.
The Three Hobbit Problem sounds like the fantasy version of the Three Body Problem.
Both a big stumbling point for physics.
They needed 4 hobbits just in case Morgoth also returned during that time, who would've been a 4 hobbit problem.