- 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
- How could Thorin and co. journey all the way to Erebor without . . .
The dwarves trust the competence of a professional burglar selected by Gandalf The burglar will need to see the configuration of Smaug's cave, especially the side door, before deciding anything
- What classic mystery novels and stories led to the butler did it . . .
"The butler did it" is a common trope indicating a hackneyed solution to a mystery I have read several classic mysteries from the 1920s and earlier (Poe, Conan Doyle, Christie, Sayers, e
- 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
- charles dickens - Why does Marley in A Christmas Carol claim that . . .
In Dickens' famous tale A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Jacob Marley clearly states to Scrooge that he is to be visited on three consecutive nights: “Expect the first to-morrow, when the bell toll
- short stories - Whats going on in Charlotte Riddells Old House in . . .
Maybe I'm looking too hard for meanings that aren't there, but can someone explain to me what's going on in Charlotte Riddell's Old House in Vauxhall Walk? How was the second burglar caught? What w
- 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
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