BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoWhat other great opening lines do you know?.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square247fedilinkarrow-up11.1Karrow-down19
arrow-up11.09Karrow-down1imageWhat other great opening lines do you know?.lemmy.worldBonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square247fedilink
minus-squaresunbytes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 days agoIf 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.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agoThat’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.
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.
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.