The First Great Tolkien Epic - Analyzing the Greatest Fairy-Story Ever Written - Thorin, the Most Stubborn Dwarf in Fiction
Yep I said it
Now that them dinner conversations and songs are out of the way, we now move to the real meat and potatoes of this first chapter of the book. Sorry, couldn’t resist the puns, they’re part and parcel to these essays, or one might say the ‘appetizers’ (I could not resist).
Anyways, what we come next to is the conversation concerning Smaug. Now this was hin…