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hobbit

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The hobbit (also hobbett , hobbet , or hobed , from ) is a unit of volume or weight formerly used in Wales for trade in grain and other staples. It was equal to four pecks or two and a half bushels , but was also often used as a unit of weight, which varied ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1937, coined in the fantasy tales of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973).\n\nOn a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I did not and do not know why. [Tolkien, letter to W.H. Auden, dated 1955] \nThe word also turns up in a very ...

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For The Hobbit is a direct descendent of the book in question, which is The Marvellous Land of Snergs by E.

She strapped on a detachable penis and raped Eve while I was looking at the Hobbit house with a lovely room for the baby.

I can suspend my disbelief enough to accept that a tiny hobbit could kill a huge orc, but Tolkien stretches it to the breaking point when he adds that the hobbit has never even used a sword before.

The small hobbit, Frodo, must take a dangerous ring into the very teeth of an all-powerful enemy and destroy it--and, of course, he succeeds.

The Three Mulla-Mulgars and The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit and The Book of Three, Elidor and The Moon of Gomrath, Five Children and It, and Half Magic and Over Sea, Under Stone -- the kind of book that could distill an entire summer into a few hundred pages, the kind of book that can still summon up memories of hammocks and peach ice cream and the scent of lilacs, even if you actually first read them in a damp attic room smelling of wet sheetrock and ant traps.

Westchester County Library System suggested that children who enjoyed The Hobbit might also enjoy Animal Farm and Rootabaga Stories.

Tolkien, and he reverently opened the book to the marked page and plowed ahead on the great adventure of one hobbit, Mr.

They walked along the perimeter of the grotto, which seemed a cross between an old English village and an Art Nouveau hobbit housing project: irregularly shaped doors and windows looking into shops that displayed baked goods and other prepared foods.

The quote suggests that the hobbits have never even worn a blade before.

But when the time comes for the hobbits to fight, they do so, apparently instinctively.

The Three Mulla-Mulgars and The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit and The Book of Three, Elidor and The Moon of Gomrath, Five Children and It, and Half Magic and Over Sea, Under Stone -- the kind of book that could distill an entire summer into a few hundred pages, the kind of book that can still summon up memories of hammocks and peach ice cream and the scent of lilacs, even if you actually first read them in a damp attic room smelling of wet sheetrock and ant traps.

But, as you will find explained, in this tale the name is a 'translation' of the real Hobbit name, derived from a village (devoted to rope-making) anglicized as Gamwich (pron.

In July, Allen & Unwin sent Tolkien the proofs of a new edition of The Hobbit, incorporating minor corrections to the text, and – much to Tolkien's surprise-substituting, for the original, the new version of part of Chapter V, 'Riddles in the Dark', which he had sent them in 1947 merely as 'a specimen of rewriting' (see no.

The Hobbit follows the story through Bilbo's eyes and tells of events in a chronological sequence.

But when they had come almost to the end of the line one looked up glancing keenly at the hobbit.