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As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.
As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.
Approximate author period: c. 1937 AD · modern
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- J.R.R. Tolkien
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- Approximate author period: c. 1937 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for J. R. R. Tolkien: documented activity in 1937. Wikidata Q892, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q892 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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