“The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.”
“The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.”
“It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a small imperfect reflection of a perfect moment.”
“I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size”
“Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.”
“The rats we met the size of small dogs and they watched us go by like they'd figured out that what People were for was feeding rats.”