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** There's some grounds for supposing that Hobbits are a sort of pygmy human. Tolkien went into some details about the origins of the other humanoid species, but never mentioned anything about the Hobbits.
** Adaptations of Tolkien's races and their [[Theme Park Version]]s appear in many, many, fantasy novels since, sometimes filtered through ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
* ''[[Discworld]]'': dwarves, gnomes, vampires, werewolves. Trolls are about as normal as people; they're just biologically very distinct—demihuman in treatment, but not in biology. Elves are [[Exclusively Evil]]. {{spoiler|Orcs}} appear in ''[[
* The Marat in ''[[Codex Alera]]''. They look human, but they all have [[Hair Colors|white hair]], [[Bond Creatures]], and some [[Unfortunate Implications|other things]] that set them apart from humans. Justified, as they are implied to be descendants of Neanderthals who were brought to [[Another Dimension]].
== [[Tabletop
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'': [[wikipedia:Elf (Dungeons & Dragons)|elves]], [[wikipedia:Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons)|dwarves]], [[wikipedia:Halfling|halflings]], [[wikipedia:Gnome (Dungeons & Dragons)|gnomes]] (in 2e), [[wikipedia:Irda (Dragonlance)|irda]] (in [[wikipedia:Dragonlance|Dragonlance]]) [[wikipedia:Tiefling|teiflings]] and [[wikipedia:Eladrin|eladrin]] (in 4e), etc.
** The trope-namer; 1st and second edition D&D used the term "demi-human" to describe the "good" races and "humanoid" to describe the "evil" races of orcs, goblins, bugbears, etc.
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[[Category:Demi Human]]
[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]]
[[Category:Not Quite Human]]
[[Category:Tabletop Game Tropes]]
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