In ‘78 -’79 I was stationed in the Azores in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean about a thousand miles from anywhere. We became friends with a guy from a very large family where half of his siblings were dwarves. They built half of their home with rooms about four feet high. That was two floors in the space of one normal floor for us. The inbreeding through at least 500 years of mostly isolation made dwarfism common.
Well, the Siege of Jerusalem was in 70, so the memory of that must have still been fresh. :-)
j/k
Wow that is bizarre, real life Hobbits! LOL