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...leave the reader wondering what all the fuss is about. Sure, little bearded men gamboling through the glades are cute, (bordering on the too-cute), but why would a grown man spend all that time and effort writing about not-so-full-grown people, especially when Tolkien and his hobbit horde seem to have preempted the field? Ignoring possible monetary reasons, it seems Huygen is trying to tell us something here. By attributing to gnomes a host of qualities he sees as lacking in human beings, like peacefulness and non-competitiveness, Huygen is holding the wee folk...
...shop markets some 170 games, the latest of which is a Tolkien imagining called War of the Ring. For $20 the Hobbit fancier gets three large maps of Middle Earth, and a densely printed 28-page rulebook with instructions like "To attempt Citadel Reduction, the Dark Power Player must expend one Shadow Point for each Nazgul present...
...Hobbit, Tolkien...
Readers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, teased for years by hints about the origins of Middle-earth will find in The Silmarillion a cosmology to call their own. Tolkien's familiar, deep-rooted sense of the unwinnable war between good and evil is also evident, along with a reverence for trees. Characteristically, dragons-those antique cruise missiles used by Morgoth-are plentiful, as are huge eagles, for rescuing heroes and depositing them safely on mountain tops...
Already a crowd is gathering on the narrow sidewalk. "It's the gold crest on the door," Elton explains. "They think the car belongs to the royal family." He is greeted by the puzzled expressions and fading smiles of people disappointed at seeing a diminutive Hobbit. The bowing doorman and salesmen inside Cartier could not be more pleased. "Good morning, Mr. John," they chime in unison. "Can we help you with some gifts...