Sentence examples for halfling from inspiring English sources

Rat Queens, Vol 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'Rygoth, Image: £7.69, amazon.co.uk Rat Queens is an on-going American fantasy comic series about four booze-loving, rowdy adventurers - a hipster dwarf, an atheist cleric, a rockabilly elven magic user, and a hippy Halfling thief.

A halfling baker's boy had cornered our friend with a bread knife.

Even when the varying skill levels of the Bats (the Flea's resident acting company) prevent all of Mr. Nguyen's lines from landing, Mr. Parker's direction juggles the ridiculous and the poignant with a dexterity that would do any halfling proud.

Jackson's film, which sees hairy-footed halfling Bilbo embark on a quest with 13 dwarves and Gandalf to wrest a priceless treasure from a dragon, currently maintains a rating of 76% "fresh" on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, suggesting that three-quarters of critics enjoyed it.

But the film also serves as a powerful showcase for Astin's performance as Samwise Gamgee, the sturdy halfling who accompanies Frodo into Mordor.

When stalwart, tawny John Donder returns to England as General Dhon Do, his fondness for the village which accepted him – and for his halfling son – places him under immense pressure, as his superiors expect him to use annihilating force upon the invaded minions without a second thought.

In a recent paper in the journal Environmental Philosophy, the historian Dolly Jørgensen notes that writers and artists are drawn to both the emotional power of the concept and the poignancy of the word itself, whose old-fashioned, Tolkienesque suffix — like "Halfling" or "Enting" — evokes a lost world.