Romans are hobbits!!!

[Sleepy]

Some factors believed to influence your height are: Your grandparents height, your parents height, your diet in the first 2 years of life, genetics, general health, luck.

[Maedhros]

I suspect luck plays little or no role. Probably just unpredictable how people turn out. Genetics is a I think huge, and diet and medical care are important as well.

If you take the height of my mothers brothers and father, add in the height of my father and his brothers and father and average it all together....you come up with 5'10"

I'm 5'11" and had much better medical care, a balanced diet and grew up in the country where I was fairly active running and climbing.

If I hadn't been born with a heart defect and spent much of my first 7 years in hospitals I'd probably be taller yet.

[bmolsson]

People are getting lazy and only live on social wellfare, of course they get taller..... The old Romans they had to work to survive......

[LordKhaine]

I'm just happy in the knowledge that at 6'3", I'd scare a lot of romans.