The Hobbit: Chapter 15, The Gathering of the Clouds - with Michael Burson of Hold My Butterbeer
That's What I'm Tolkien About
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The Worm of Dread Is Slain and Dead
M, i had a questioned in previous there was one chapter where bilbo's dad says something like, every worm has a soft spot. And that's how bilbo knows to look for a smougs soft spot. Is that not just the whole worm, rightyes, just not all soft but i have had some people message me like, oh, well, in like, mythology or or whatever, i'm doing a terrible job explaining the detailed explanations they gave me aboutk the etymology and history of this. But worm was used to refer to dragons, exactly. We've got like worm drake am, wyvern, ah, there. There're so many in history
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