Who is the King in The Hobbit?

[littlemanpoet]

Wi' cup o' mead in hand
(best in the land)
I tells ye it mus' be as Belin
is tellin' ye.
Ye see,
The Hobbit yer readin'
was a revision
by Tollers
after he wrote
LotR, so it follers
(without quote)
that he reworked his text
being vexed
by his nigglin' ways
to build back from earlier days
the legend o' the king
to fit in wi' the Ring.
He knowed wut he wuz doin'
and west of Anduin
civil folk knowed
to whom they owed
what little law they owned
came from he who was crowned
and ruled in Fornost
before most
of the hobbits came
and made their hame.

Um - I hope that made sense.

Translation: Tolkien was enough of a niggler that in his revision of The Hobbit after having written LotR, it's very doubtful that he would have missed this king reference, and sure as sure, he worked it seamlessly into the whole. At least that's what I think. And no, I don't think ol' Tollers was perfect, just a perfectionist to a fault. What a great fault!
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