Was on the archives and ran across this great post on the halfling. Never thought of the halfling as a short ranger, but the characterization is spot on - a light fighter, stealthy outdoors (good scout when combined with infravision, depending on edition), good with missile weapons. Not many folks played halfling as other than thieves back in the day since they were weak fighters, but I'll have to give this some further thought..
http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2014/06/hobbits-as-rangers-of-basic.html
http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2014/06/hobbits-as-rangers-of-basic.html
Thanks for the re-post. I meant to follow with some quotes from Tolkien about Ranger-y Hobbits, but I didn't finish it at the time. Coincidentally I just started working on it again last night, so hopefully I'll post it soon.
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