CuriousG
Gondolin
May 11 2025, 3:53pm
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Anyone else remember Sarah Pocket in Charles Dickens' [i]Great Expectations[/i]? Same idea of the money-grubbing would-be heirs always feeling entitled and being nasty about it, their sole interest in Miss Havisham being her money, and it happens in real life too, so a well-deserved trope.
Good point about the SBs. They are delightfully comedic in early LOTR (who the heck steals spoons when you're already rich??), and I had zero inkling that Lotho would be resurrected at the end as the hobbit who sold out the Shire and then lost control of it (and got eaten), but you're right, if he'd just been some new Mayor of Michel Delving gone rogue that we didn't know about, and that Frodo didn't have a vested interest in saving and redeeming, it would not have landed as well with us readers.
(This post was edited by CuriousG on May 11 2025, 3:53pm)
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