The Hobbit: The Trolls and Spiders
Jul. 19th, 2013 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16The Annotated Hobbit
Page 86:
In a 1977 speech to the Tolkien Society in England, Tolkien's second son, Michael, said that as children, he, his two brothers, and his sister had each, at some point in their development, thought the Troll chapter was the best chapter in the book. He continued, "We thought there was something rather nice about the Trolls, and it was a pity they had to be turned to stone at all."
Me Again:
Also, one of Tolkien's children had an immense fear of spiders so that's why there are so many, lol.
On page 322, they feel the need to explain "Parley". I think this is because it was published in 2002 because in a post 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean world...EVERYONE knows what parley means.
Page 86:
In a 1977 speech to the Tolkien Society in England, Tolkien's second son, Michael, said that as children, he, his two brothers, and his sister had each, at some point in their development, thought the Troll chapter was the best chapter in the book. He continued, "We thought there was something rather nice about the Trolls, and it was a pity they had to be turned to stone at all."
Me Again:
Also, one of Tolkien's children had an immense fear of spiders so that's why there are so many, lol.
On page 322, they feel the need to explain "Parley". I think this is because it was published in 2002 because in a post 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean world...EVERYONE knows what parley means.
