Funny you ask that, I was thinking about that the other day...about how I perceived the characters before I saw the movies. Honestly, I thought hobbits were like lawn gnomes...and the elves were little itty-bitty people that always laughed. ^.^ But I read 'The Hobbit' when I was little and probably understood like three words in the whole book--and besides the fact that we studied it to death at school and I'm sure that some people feel the same way--no matter how good the book is, if you read it in school you will most likely get sick of it within the first chapter. <P>~~Daegwenn
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"And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—Riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard.
And he taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred.
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair"
Highwayman
Alfred Noyes
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