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 Dwarfs - Chapter by Chapter
Mab, i think when the birds show up, it's about three days. And yet, all of a sudden they're alltheys, like birds flying around and making a big reccus. It is kind of a strange story telling device. But i guess in more modern books, yer, they would be like an ellipses,. or like someti, you know, tolkin doesn't really do that. He spends a whole chapter telling about what else is going on. That didn't happen. The fact that this insanely major plot device that they had been building up to happend dlike with five chapters left in the book. I thought it was going
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