• sunbytes@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    If it’s not already trivia you know, apparently Tolkien just wrote that line on a piece of paper one day and just built the story around it.

    Hopefully it’s not apocryphal.

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      8 days ago

      That’s cool, I hope it’s true 😆 I heard he basically told the story to his kids and formalized it later, but either way that’s a great origin.