@drmaddkap We absolutely must make the Hobbit an official unit of length for the Americans. They will get used to it and in 200 or 300 years, when they stop paying attention, we will ask them to replace Hobbit with metre and we will have won.
And meanwhile, we can laugh when they explain very seriously that their new car is 5 Hobbits long or that, for whatever sport with a ball only them like or understand, the record for throwing is now hundreds of Hobbits.