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A follow-up on this. =X
A follow-up on this. =X
The Hobbit is a story about massive introvert who was forced to go outside.
yeah and look at how that turned out for them, friends dead, ring addiction, and your house gets ransacked and sold off.
Christopher Tolkien explains why his father, JRR Tolkien, wrote down “The Hobbit” in the first place, when it was originally intended to be an oral bedtime story for his children.
(found in the forward to The Hobbit Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1987)
‘Damn the boy’