Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-26065062-20160713125226/@comment-26453572-20160726155309

Elestan Larcalaite wrote: Sorry Tolkien, but it had to be done:

"Mr. Bilbo  Baggins of Bag End" Tolkien must have loveb bags.

"-that he would shortly" Haha. What a funny pun.

"-Hobbiton." What an original name for a town inhabited by hobbits.

"'It will have to be paid for.' they said" -Tolkien encouraging people to spend more money.

"'It isn't natural and trouble will come of it!'" Tolkien encouraging people to be more normal and and in-line with society.

"But trouble had not come; and as Mr. Baggins was generous with his money, most people were willing to forgive his oddities and his good fortune." Tolkien saying that wealth will make all of your problems go away.

"Number Three, Bagshot Row" Tolkien once again displays his obsession with bags.

-A meaningless pair of paragraphs follow, one about how queer the Brandybucks are and one about confusing family ties and history that nobody can wrap their head around.-

"jools." Apparently, people couldn't spell jewels correctly before the 21st century. You do realize all of these were from the perspective of Hobbits, right. You're bashing his development of his characters and their culture by accusing him of subliminal messages invoking terrible morals about money. Then you criticize the use of "bag" in some names (Bag End has its name because it is at the end of Bagshot row), the use of "Hobbiton" as a name (which is really showing the simple culture of Hobbits), their opinions about other Hobbit families, conforming to modern societal standards (and if you were to look into his religious life, you would see he clearly wasn't trying to encourage that), and their spelling. (Which, once again, portrays the simple nature of Hobbits. Notice how the only time he spelled it that way was when the Hobbits were speaking?)