Is it considered cannibalism if you're a human and eating a hobbit?



Sorry, I can't get that question out of my head. And why would there even be the need? You can eat so much else to survive, like plants and berries and fish and eggs and snakes (haha, very funny -_-) and frogs and hedgehogs and even steal food from others. There probably couldn't be a hunger that is strong enough to drive one to eat other people, unless you're starving? Which shouldn't be possible at this point? They're in the Shire, there should be enough food for everyone, they're collecting all the food and Saruman himself is described as "well fed" and why would there be the need to resort to cannibalism?
Seriously, Saruman, why did you even say that? T-T And why did you let him say that, Tolkien? Sometimes I hate you both.

On second thought, no, I hate Gandalf the White. In Edoras he was all like: "Well, he may have done great harm to you but don't kill him, let him live. Give him a horse and let him go."
At the Orthanc he's suddenly "If he ever gets  out of Orthanc alive, it is more than he deserves." What exactly did make you say that, Gandalf? He gave you that goddamn Palantír so that you could see what happened in Minas Tirith later on (not exactly with that intention, but who cares). Or were you that offended that he actually tried to hit you with it?
And if you consider staying five months in a tower with a very angry wizard whose favourite occupation is hitting other people with his staff and explaining to you over and over how worthless you are and then going on a trip for a whole month with more staff-hitting and almost no food and being cold and miserable and then getting a quest which is "kill the leader" which is clearly a traumatizing business even without the "possibly ate him"-part as "well, at least he's not dead, can't be that bad", then please think again. -_-

That got a bit out of hand and is more than I originally intended to write. Whoops.