> it's pretty clear the family's woes were largely due to him I mean, FFS, the family ended up living in a dirt hole dug into a damn riverbank! Not a nice hobb

> it's pretty clear the family's woes were largely due to him I mean, FFS, the family ended up living in a dirt hole dug into a damn riverbank! Not a nice hobbit home, either: we’re talking a raw dirt hole. Pa was bug-fuck crazy and anyone who reads the books as an adult can see it writ large. Edit: whoa! No offense intended, fans of the myth, but again: dirt hole. That ain’t the behaviour of a fully rational adult.