… Reading amazing books with aliens and creatures of all shapes and sizes, then going to the movies or turning on your TV and seeing everything you read portrayed by nothing but slender actors. Weren’t Hobbits supposed to be fat? (And wasn’t Bombur supposed to talk?)By the way, that scene with the bench in Rivendell? I hold that Elrond bought the stupid thing at Pier 1 and it wouldn’t have lasted ten minutes around any self-respecting dwarf. Oh, imagination, you help me not kill things.