Vitamin D deficiency and The Hobbit

This scientific paper theorizes that vitamin D deficiency is strongly correlated to evilness in The Hobbit, and that a simple lack of sunshine may have been the only thing that turned all those monsters bad. The tongue-in-cheek study pored over the “dietary habits, moral attributes and martial prowess of various inhabitants of Middle Earth” to come to this conclusion.

The paper may be a bit silly, but the underlying point (that vitamin D deficiency is real and problematic) is very true.

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