[ she was halfway kidding about the dragons, so she's surprised to hear that they existed, and died out. she's not sure what to say about that, since some dragons are obviously evil, but some might be nice! so she'll just skip over that ]

Dwarves, I know about, from stories and fairy tales that people tell. But I've never heard of a hobbit before. [ /treebeard ] Halfings... are they really short or something?

[ nodnod ] I'm not surprised that there are people who come from there. It's really big, and almost everyone wants to go there anyway. New York is great.