吃瓜紅髮

This is an episode that should not have happened at the end of the Third Age, when the treacherous Dark Lord Sauron was regaining his strength and building his forces in Dol Guldur; the great burglar Mr. Bilbo Baggins was living a delightful life of six or seven meals a day in his hobbit‑hole; the sorrowful “King Under the Mountain” Thorin Oakenshield was leading his kin in the Blue Mountains in search of a better life; the forest‑elf king Thranduil, wearing a crown of flowers for all seasons, was becoming ever more reclusive; the wise Grey‑wandering wizard Gandalf sensed the danger looming over Middle‑earth, the resurgence of the dark power, and was everywhere warning folk, soon his “protection” would fall upon the House of Durin; and I.