If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.
J. R. R. TolkienIf you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.
J. R. R. TolkienThere was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.
J. R. R. TolkienSaruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!
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