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Whats the deal with Bilbo being some kind of burglar? Burglar wants a good job, plenty of Excitement and reasonable Reward, that’s how it is usually read You can say Expert Treasure-hunter instead of Burglar if you like Some of them do It’s all the same to us As for your side-question, The Hobbit was written at a time when Tolkien's ideas about Middle Earth weren't as fleshed out yet
80s-90s Female Cat Burglar accepts only Sapphires as payment Read the story at least 30-40 years ago Book was in English, read in USA, probably a paperback The story follows the career of a female cat burglar in Europe (?; I think she was French or Italian
Newest j-r-r-tolkien Questions - Literature Stack Exchange Questions about the works of the English author J R R (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien or his life as a writer Tolkien is best known for 'The Lord of the Rings', 'The Hobbit', 'The Silmarillion' and the other works making up the Middle-Earth legendarium
Newest the-hobbit Questions - Literature Stack Exchange What's the deal with Bilbo being some kind of "burglar"? I may only be 37 pages into The Hobbit, re-reading it after 20+ years, but several things already confuse me
poetry - What is the origin of this contradictory poem? - Literature . . . With such a long history, it seems the best conclusion we can draw is that the idea of this poem has been around so long that it's pretty much a folk tradition It's been handed down from generation to generation, probably mostly orally, and has of course changed and mutated quite a lot over the last seven hundred years But trying to pin down an 'original author', for any particular version
poetry - Why in the midst of alarms in William Cowpers poem The . . . Specifically, the word "alarms" seems like a strange choice from a modern point of view: nowadays, it gives an impression of cacophonous noise (alarm clocks, car alarms, burglar alarms), but at the time of Cowper's writing, perhaps it was more commonly used, even as a count noun, in the sense of a feeling of danger