> If Bilbo could jump over Gollum with a three-foot leap, Gollum cannot be a giant. Agree (although Gollum was crouched down) > I strongly suspect was largely

> If Bilbo could jump over Gollum with a three-foot leap, Gollum cannot be a giant. Agree (although Gollum was crouched down) > I strongly suspect was largely as written, however, and even without the explicit numbers, if Bilbo jumps over Gollum, the inference remains largely the same I'm guessing that the jump wasn't in the first edition at all, where Bilbo and Gollum apparently parted amicably.