BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat other great opening lines do you know?.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square180fedilinkarrow-up1931arrow-down19
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minus-squaresunbytes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoIf 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.
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThat’s cool, I hope it’s true 😆 I heard he basically told the story to his kids and formalized it later, but either way that’s a great origin.
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.
That’s cool, I hope it’s true 😆 I heard he basically told the story to his kids and formalized it later, but either way that’s a great origin.