Editing Half-Dwarf (section)

==Hush Hush Crackpot Half-Dwarf Hypothesis whispered by belly bearded grognards after a few pints==
Tolkien never explained the origins of hobbits in his world and fantasy genre building bible, but did mention three short folk sub races: the dwarf-like Stoors, the elf-like Fallohides, and the human-like Harfoots which was a wink wink that some sexual deviation of some sort was responsible for their origins. Naturally with early D&D being a direct ripoff of Tolkien, TSR included hobbits even keeping the sexually implicating sub races but resorted to changing the names to avoid a legal bend-over of ankle grabbing stiff walking for a month proportions. Hobbits became halflings, Stoors became Stouts, Fallohides became Tallfellows, Harfoots became Hairfoots and the estate lawyers can't touch us neener-neener. 

A plausible hypothesis bandied about the gaming table along with the beer, Doritos and Mtn. Dew was that dwarves being a dying race with few randy prospects except a handful of fuzzy faced dour dwarf women, got their ooh lala by kidnapping taller folks' women for much needed breeding stock. Naturally there were a few complications, like needing a box to stand on, but a few of these pairings surprisingly actually worked out and resulted in dwarflings of half dwarf parentage. The violated elven mothers produced stunted half elves called Fallohides, the human brood mares produced Harfoots. Obviously the experiment was flubbed from the getgo not getting any new dwarf babies to bolster their dwindling race, but dwarves are stubborn and repeated it constantly to obtain a broader data set before scrapping the effort entirely; resulting in half breed dwarf halfling populations substantially increasing in the meantime. Some sharp wit decided that the box to stand on wasn't worth the effort and the halflings themselves were back bred to dwarves which then resulted in Stoors, the most dwarvish of the lot but still not passable as true dwarves. They gave it a go and came up short...literally. 

Missing out on beer and gold can only last for so long in the dwarf mind, so thoughts and boots pointed towards other pursuits and the orphan population of the now three types of dwarfling halflings were abandoned on the surface while the dwarves headed back home underground. The whole thing was hushed up with pinky swears like the Soviet humanzee hybrid program, with nobody especially the few dwarf women the wiser. The orphans played lost boys, mad max beyond thunderdome and lord of the flies as a group for as long as they could but eventually each distinct halfling type went their separate ways trying to emulate mum's folks as best as they remembered resulting in the three types of hobbits retconned to halflings (elsewhere than middle-earth) popping up out of nowhere. There is mild speculation that a few elves got wind of the debacle resulting in the dire enmity, bloodshed and bitter wars between the elves and dwarves forever after. Of course no mention of the Nelwin Pecks in Willow or how they possibly fit in to any of the dwarf/ halfling origin hypothesis. Out of the way Peck!