In case you didn't know (and this is deep geekery, so I don't know why you would): It's a conceit of Tolkien's presentation that the story we're reading in th

In case you didn't know (and this is deep geekery, so I don't know why you would): It's a conceit of Tolkien's presentation that the story we're reading in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings was recovered from historical manuscripts written by Bilbo and the other hobbits, which were collected by later hobbits in a tome called the Red Book of Westmarch [1]. That big red leatherbound edition of the Lord of the Rings references this conceit. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch