This afternoon I was dusting my bedroom, and I paused a moment to take my copy of
The Hobbit off the rack where I keep it, on top of one of my barrister bookcases. It had been a very long time since I last opened the book, and I really need to replace it. The book is a paperback, and the copy is so old the pages have all turned brown. I reread the first few pages, and once again I was delighted by how chatty and middle class the opening of the story is, like the servants gossiping below stairs in some program on
Masterpiece Theatre. ![Grin ;D](https://bettermost.net/forum/Smileys/cowboy/grin.gif)
Especially the part where the narrator says that Bilbo's father built the hobbit hole in part with his wife's money. ...
![Grin ;D](https://bettermost.net/forum/Smileys/cowboy/grin.gif)
I know it's traditional and in other stories as well, but any idea why dragons like gold?
I keep thinking of Colonel Dolarhyde's line in the movie Cowboys and Aliens:
"What are they going to do? Buy something?"
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