The Tolkien Coming of Age Club 2

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

As far as I know, we're all on the near side of the grave

If I'm not dead, why did they put me in a barrow? And why did my ear just fall off?

By the way, 'cold be hand and heart and bone' is right. I haven't had a fire for five years, and nobody thought to leave me any scotch. Even my chilblains are shivering.

You know, as I recall that article about false teeth was a joke. Any fule kno that the TS keep Tolkien's pipe and teeth in a priceless reliquary decorated with quotations in Tengwar from the secret letters: the one that fits Tom Bombadil into the Silmarillion cosmology, and the other one from November 1968 that contains a drawing of Durin's bane.