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fandom: lord of the rings, spoilers- noooo! you bitch! you bitch!!!

HDU spoil a book that's 75 years old!
smilla840 is unhappy because a Hobbit fanfic didn't warn for spoilers. Cue laughter.

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sgaana
2013-01-04 05:34 pm UTC (link)

Honestly? Especially for folks who read it as a kid, I can much more easily see forgetting the Battle of the Five Armies. It's complicated, messy, and involves kind of adult issues, and Tolkien doesn't actually write it in loving detailed description (in fact Bilbo is knocked on the head and spends most of it unconscious and invisible, and is only told what happened later, which IMO makes it more likely to be unmemorable).

I just would think that if a kid is going to remember anything from The Hobbit, it'd be the Riddles in the Dark, and the big honkin' dragon. But I could be wrong!

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	lady_ganesh 2013-01-04 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I remembered the dragon, the little detail that got the dragon killed (though I didn't remember how!), and that Gandalf was impossibly cool. Rereading I was amused at what an anticlimax the Battle was. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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