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Did Bilbo see Gandalf in between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings? [duplicate]
I know that in Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring Bilbo greets Gandalf as an old friend that he hasn't seen for many years. That implies that it's the first meeting between the pair since Bilbo returned ...
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Does any of The Hobbit's negative impression of Wood Elves survive in Tolkien's other writing?
In The Lord of the Rings, the only Wood Elf we get to know is Legolas, who is obviously awesome. But in The Hobbit, the image we get of Wood Elves is far less positive. We are told that they "are ...
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Why didn't Tolkien do more with the Stone-Giants?
In The Hobbit, the heroes shelter from a storm in the mountains and see a group of stone-giants throwing boulders at each other.
The Stone-giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another ...
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Was Elrond always supposed to be an Elf?
This passage in The Hobbit puzzled me:
The master of [Rivendell] was an elf-friend... He was as noble and as fair as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king ...
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Was Gollum completely naked in the books?
This might sound like a weird question, but here goes anyway.
In the LotR and the Hobbit movies, Gollum is always shown with a piece of cloth hiding his private area. It seems dull to me that he ...