“Old Took’s great-grand-uncle Bullroarer…was so huge (for a hobbit)…” — The Hobbit, or There and Back Again 📚 log(book)

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Old Took’s great-grand-uncle Bullroarer…was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields and knocked their king Golfimbul’s head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

by J.R.R. Tolkien · published 1937 · read 2000-07-01

★★★★☆

The Hobbit was my first Tolkien. I read it first when I was eight, but I had already listened to the excellent audio book about a million times – I got that for my fifth or sixth birthday. It introduced me to so many concepts.