Karthik Shashidhar

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There were also halflings named hobbits, and if these – with their large hairy feet and their comical names – seemed sprung from some nursery tale, then that was indeed how they had originated. Tolkien, though, could not rest content with writing a children’s book. His ambitions were too epic in scale.
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