error in chapter causing Pedantic Tolkien Fanboy error, where recommendation to defeat Smaug is to "summon a Baggins". This should be corrected to

"summon Bard of Dale",

Although everyone gets Tolkien wrong, so it isn't too bad. Or may be the Cat is just not spoddy enough to know he's wrong.



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But somebody tells the Bard where to shoot, because Bilbo sees the vulnerable patch? Or have I got confused again somewhere?



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You're right Dante; it's a comedy talking bird that snuck in from A horse and his boy while C.S. Lewis wasn't looking, but can't remember what type, I think it's a swallow. It overhears Bilbo mention the squishy bit and tells Bard where to aim.

And it's just Bard, not the Bard. Shakespeare was a man of many talents, but Slaying dragons wasn't one of them.



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i/. Wasn't it a thrush?

ii/. On the other hand, considering how little is actually known about Shakespeare... ;-)


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Fair Point

i/ Probably was, but try to tell me I'm wrong about it being a Narnian on exchange

ii/ This is a conspiracy theory:

Shakespere is a refugee from a Fantasy novel, who to escape from Slaying monsters ran away from fiction, where he sought refuge, so was disguised as the greatest playwright of all time, SO12 took him back to write the plays that he'd already written, and he'd have immunity to bookworlds schemes 'cos, well they're not gonna kill Shakespeare are they?

I hope you're getting all this Millon



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Isn't a certain rogue chronoguard colonel responsible for Shakespeare's plays anyway?

That's what they want you to think. Or possibly it confirms ou theory. But how is Elvis involved. And did JFK get assassinated, was he even president in Thursday's world.

The public needs to know



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Baggins saw the bare spot; told the dwarves while the thrush was listening; thrush told Bard the Bowman, etc.
I've just read 'The Hobbit' for the umpty-umpth time, so I know its right.
I was going to say something racist and xenophobic, [Stick to what you are good at, is what I say.] but I realized in time, so you won't see it here. Aren't you the lucky ones?

I hope for your sake you weren't about to say mean things about hobbits, or there would be trouble



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If anyone hasn't seen this yet, I give you
The Hobbit Name Generator!!
Yours,
Belladonna Boffin of Needlehole!

Mungo Chubb of Deephollow, I like it. Isn't the Net full of purposeless junk. Thanks SingingHels



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Mungo Brambleburr of Bindbale Wood.

Rosie-Posie Proudfoot. Hmm. Actually, there's a Proudfoot in, um, The Lives Of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones. It's a cat, though, not a hobbit.

And I think I had Bard being a D&D-type bard, rather than a Shakespearey one. (Still wrong, I know, but in a different way...)



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To Barefoot Andy. Not hobbits, I assure you. I cannot
explain further, or I'll blow it.

You take your dracophobic oppressive views away from this board or you'll be feeling my hairy toes at your butt, boy!

Probably still wrong, but what's a chap to do



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Yup. Sorry, Mr. Andy, or can I call you Barefoot?
You are still wrong. Not wishing to burst your bubble, or
assassinate your Easter Bunny, or what all, but I wasn't
referring to fiction. More than enough said. I'll try to be
good from now on. Well, possibly just better. THAT
wouldn't be hard!

Andy, I checked out you Pathetic Tolkein Fanboy error on my very own Pathetic Tolkein Fangirl, aka my daughter and asked her what would you summon if you wanted to kill Smaug, and she trotted out the following:

You'd want Bard the bowman, and the thrush to tell him to shoot it in the armpit. If you called a Baggins, they'd just bore each other to death with riddles.

I think my daughter may be even sadder than you. Although, her tender years should excuse her a bit.