Re: The Hobbit, after all these years

On 08/11/2012 20:45, Wayne Morrison wrote:
> randall.m@gmail.com said:
>> It makes for a great sequence in which the Trolls are perfectly
>> comprehensible characters. One could argue whether Tolkien giving them
>> Cockney accents was a way of putting down the poor of his time, or whether
>> it was meant to make us sympathise with the trolls . . . just poor working
>> blokes out of the hills looking for something that isn't mutton to eat.
> Good question and I have no idea. I don't know what Tolkien's politics were
> like, so I don't even know what was likely. I'll choose to believe your
> second option because I didn't realize they had Cockney accents and I really
> like the idea that the trolls are regular guys just out in the hills.
>
> Given the treasure stored up in their cave, I'm not sure I'd include them in
> the ranks of the working poor.
>

burglers, robbers, muggers - the 'non-working class'.

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Jette Goldie
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