Well, you are making fun of this, but about half a year ago there were papers on all the bus stops around my home with the text:
"Will reward anyone who finds and returns a gold ring. Without stone, but with inscribed characters. It is an old family treasure. Call (...)"
And some vandal wrote on one of these papers:
"Don't believe him! - F. Baggins"
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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