The PHPClasses.org site has posted a humorous look at the PHP language with several reasons why PHP is a "hobbit" (a Lord of the Rings series reference):

Sometime ago a user of the Quora site asked a question if there was a language war, which languages you support and why. Another user gave a very creative response comparing programming languages with characters of the Lord of the Rings story of JRR Tolkien.

There's six reasons listed in the post:

• PHP is Scripted C
• PHP is not Teaming with C++ Evil
• PHP is Not particularly Beautiful but it is Very Useful
• PHP is Not the Fastest Language to Execute but is Agile
• JavaScript could be a Hobbit too but Asynchronous Programming is a Hell
• PHP Success Causes the Envy of Others

If you're interested to see the thread where the idea for this post came from, you can read it here on Quora.