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minus-squareRedStamp@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoThis meme is entirely false. Tolkien stole from the Red Book of Westmarch, not the Hobbit!
minus-squareTwo9A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days agoFor context, this is from the foreword to the Lord of the Rings: I have in this tale adhered more closely to the actual words and narrative of my original than in the previous selection from the Red Book, The Hobbit.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.auOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoRed Book? Is Mao from Middle Earth?
minus-squareØπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoIt’s pronounced Mow Is Dung, so that’d track like a plow.
This meme is entirely false. Tolkien stole from the Red Book of Westmarch, not the Hobbit!
For context, this is from the foreword to the Lord of the Rings:
Red Book? Is Mao from Middle Earth?
It’s pronounced Mow Is Dung, so that’d track like a plow.