Hobbit2 - Chapter 01 - An Unexpected Party

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Originally Posted by Boromir88

But that is not nearly as a captivating first sentence as "In the hole, in the ground, there lived a hobbit."

Hey, hey, no commas there!

I have quite enjoyed all the meanings of "good morning" in this chapter. A phrase with so many meanings!

Tolkien does a neat trick on the reader - rather like the one Gandalf plays on Beorn a while later. He keeps interrupting the story with bits of history to make us more informed and at the same time more curious.

Overall, I think this chapter has a naughty kind of mood. Just the right combination of funny and serious and mysterious and adventurous to make a kid excited to read on and someone older go "aww" for the "child mood".