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[โ€“] sunbytes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it's not already trivia you know, apparently Tolkien just wrote that line on a piece of paper one day and just built the story around it.

Hopefully it's not apocryphal.

[โ€“] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

That's cool, I hope it's true ๐Ÿ˜† I heard he basically told the story to his kids and formalized it later, but either way that's a great origin.