The Structure of Stories

There's this idea in literature that is associated with the descent to the underworld onto a trip to hell, but before hell was an organized conceptualization. So you see it reflected in stories like the Hobbit, which is a retelling of a very, very old story. In fact, the oldest story that there is, I would say,. He wasn't stupid. He knew perfectly well what he was doing, and he knew that he was taking a very old story from St. George and the Dragon.