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dernwyn
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Aug 23 2012, 11:26am
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as silent as a pair of bare hobbit-feet, would they! For this reason, it's just as well that Tolkien forgot about writing them into the text.
I just took a look in Annotated Hobbit at Tolkien's illustrations, "Sketch for The Forest River" and "Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raft-elves", and sure enough, that Hobbit is wearing boots!
I'd love to sit down with Tolkien in a pub somewhere and discuss this with him...
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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