I really love Hobbits, or Halflings in most fantasy worlds they are in, they are lighthearted, humble, and silly.
Gnomes in wow from what I can tell are meant to be the same just with more focus on technology rather than food, they’re still Lighthearted, humble-ish, and silly but for some reason I don’t share the same love for hobbits as I do gnomes, and I can’t quite put my finger as to why.
I mean I don’t hate them! I like them in fact! just not as much as I feel like I should, it’s a weird topic I know, but does anyone else feel the same?
More like, hobbits are a mix of dwarrow and elf. After all, Yavanna is the vala who cares for the hobbits, and her husband Aule is also known as Mahal
As for WoW, I don’t think gnomes are all that similar to hobbits in anything other than size. They’ve no similarities in occupation or preoccupations. They’re tinkerers and toy-makers, more like the dwarrows in Tolkien than the nature loving hobbits.
Really, WoW races have more in common with Forgotten Realms than Tolkien. We’re just missing halflings.
Edit: Also meant to mention the vast physical dissimilarities between gnomes and haflings.
Haflings have pointed ears like elves, and hairy feet with thick soles, but beyond that they are perfectly proportional by human standards. Like you put a half-elf in Willy Wonka’s shrinker.
Gnomes are not proportional by human standards. They have very exaggerated features, generally very large round ears, bulbous noses, and small bodies that are not proportional to their heads.
The gnome appeared as a [player character] in the original ** (1978). The gnome also appeared in the original [Monster Manual] (1977). A new gnomish subrace, the deep gnome [svirfneblin], was presented as a character race in the original [Unearthed Arcana] Another gnome subrace, the [tinker gnome (minoi)], was presented in [Dragonlance Adventures] (1987).
Gnomes were originally introduced to [Dungeons & Dragons] as a new alternative to [dwarves], [elves], and [halflings]. They were developed from mythology from a number of different sources, originally being a bearded, short race similar to halflings and dwarves. The gnome’s niche in play was made magical, to separate it from the more warrior-like dwarf and the more rogue-like halfling.
From 1977 -1987 Gnomes were magical but NOT tinkers
After all, Yavanna is the vala who cares for the hobbits, and her husband Aule is also known as Mahal 
