The Annoying Hobbit - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

02-24-2005, 09:17 PM

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the phantom

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the phantom is wading through snowdrifts on Redhorn.

Just in case someone wanted to see the words right from Tolkien's pen (letter 131)-

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The generally different tone and style of The Hobbit is due, in point of genesis, to it being taken by me as a matter from the great cycle susceptible of treatment as a 'fairy-story', for children.

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