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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Tolkien's dwarf names
Message-ID: <700@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 21:03:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.700
Posted: Sun Sep  1 21:03:32 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 07:41:35 EDT
References: <3444@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <3444@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> allison@mitre.ARPA writes:
>    
>The first few times I read the Hobbit I had no idea this was going on,
>but when I recently read the Hobbit to my 3-1/2 year-old daughter --
>out loud -- I found out that the book is *particularly* well suited to
>that type of reading, and exceptionally well suited for reading to
>children.
>    
	Well, this is hardly surprising, since Tolkien created the
story as a series of bedtime stories for his then-young sons It was
published essentially as an afterthought.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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