size comparison; human to animal ratio in redwall abbey.

[mattimouse20]

Meaning, if a human were to km off, they would be toast. Inside, the rooms would be no bigger than mouseholes from our perspective.

[Redwaller]

Wrong! It would be way bigger, because badgers can fit in them, and there's still a lot of room.

[Georgiana]

The way I imagine things while reading is that all the animals are roughly the same size but badgers are a bit taller, maybe half a foot or more depending on which badger. I imagine the more motherly, gentle ones to be shorter than the warrior ones, so Constance and Bella would be maybe half a foot taller than the rest of the woodlanders, but Boar the Fighter would be a whole foot taller.

As for the size comparison with humans, while reading I picture everything through the woodlanders eyes as being the same proportion as through human eyes. However, I picture everything in the world of Redwall and Mossflower to be about half the size as it is for humans, including the animals. So, imagine everything in the world build for people that are like 3-4 feet tall, and that's how I imagine it being in Mossflower. I have trouble with the size of the forest, though. I can't picture a forest with trees half the size of normal trees XD Mostly I picture the buildings at that scale.

[mattimouse20]

It would be like stepping into a Lego set, with everything being only twice the size than normal.

[Ajc3000fox]

To me the races difffer in size, an average mouse or squirrel might might be 4,5, then say the otters would stand at around 5,5 to 6 maybe, and then the badgers( the biggest of them) might get up to 8
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jshTdTKvL.jpg i know its an artist representation but it shows an otter and a few other wood landers and what my height scale is.

The of course monsters like huge snakes can be bigg enough to mash trees

[Lutra]

Welcome to the forum ajcfox.   Please introduce yourself on the Lawns when you get a chance.

[Ajc3000fox]

hehe, i did  already

[phoenixfoden]

i usualy compare them to the size of trees and acorns

[JaquesFan1979]

Jacques didn't help make this any clearer.  Cluny arrives in a hay cart, along with FIVE HUNDRED members of his personal army. Matthias and the other brother fight a fish for two hours before landing it. Its a TWO POUND fish.

Those two passages would seem to specify mice and other animals in Redwall are the same or similar in size to our world.

[Kitsune]

I can't put the two together.  I imagine the trees and plant life in Mossflower to be as big to the animals as it is to us.  In my eyes, a squirrel is about six feet tall, and the rest are either larger or smaller than that.  Humans don't fit in because to me, the animals replace humans completely.

That's what I think, too.

[321tumbler]

Shrews seem a little smaller than others.

[Leatho Shellhound]

Well in Marlfox it talks about the redwall babies eating lots and lots of strawberries, and stuffin them in there mouths. 

So strawberries must be smaller in the redwall books than in real life.

[AxeHound]

I don't think that the animals in 'Redwall' are considered to be the canon size.

[Mattio]

I just had the animals replace the humans and then the badgers just being huge

[Romsca]

I just had the animals replace the humans and then the badgers just being huge

Me too!