>But suddenly Gollum remembered thieving from nests long ago,

I’m not sure where the phrase came from but I’m from the UK and thats where I’ve heard it used. I googled the phrase "teaching your grandmother to suck eggs" and found a quite informative article on the website worldwide words. It seems to have been in use since the early 1700’s at least and is basically saying "don’t presume to offer advice to an expert"...There are examples of similar phrases there.....Tolkien undoubtedly would have been aware of this phrase so I cannot believe that this was meant in a literal sense.

Here’s a possible answer : My version of "The Hobbit" is in French ; and at that part, there’s a note saying that the expresion "teaching his grandmother to suck eggs" is synonymous to the French expression Gros-Jean qui en remontre à son curé, which means that those who are ignorant like to teach or correct those that already have knowledge.

He made his gran gobble on his veg. Rite of passage in hobbiton

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>>9108007
>My version of "The Hobbit" is in French
Is French your preferred language? Have you read the English and French translations both? I have pic-related and am tempted to read it but my French is rudimentary at best.

>>9108008
Smeagol wasn't from Hobbiton you fuck.

Call him Smægol. Long time ago, did not mather how long precisely and with no ring in purse, he said to Granny ‛Hey Mamma, wacha see m'a Smægol finny rods' while grabbing off her headneck and putting his frail hookstick across Grama's fishy tongue with alacrity desperation. And she said Gulp, gulp, gulp, and then said goll, goll, goll. Night after nigth the trail continued, it was the third stroke when he made his move. And with the impactant tackleau of thus stick-stock and the wada-wada laba-labia, a horrifying streik sounded out loud like a gollûm, coff, coff, glurps, gollûm, and puke the læmb, a stirabout. But so then he, who dragged like the fisherman elf grabs the salmon out of the Oceanus, pulled out with masculinity and gentlemannerism inherited from tradition the sticka'rrod separating the gustative cave-worm from the elder now-corpse. Seemed she wås not the early bird, no more.
And then querubin of the Lore made it's appear eith the trumpets of the Pallas of Glass. And the Lore said to Smægol ‛ You ain't be the pater famely of countless nations. You are with me and I am with you. Now I name you Gollum and with a bald cut as sign of our alliance I retire my self to rest and Larp. Now then he knew it, she was a blop and he was a Hurricane. She was the prey when we was the pray who pray the Lore.
Claps.

>>9108135
Reads more like work from Bill Cosby

>>9108085
Then why are you trying to read it in French?

>>9108135
-JJ

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>>9108153
I said that I'd like to, not that I have. Because it's a children's book, which would be something reasonable for me to whet my French on, and Tolkien's works are something with which I am already familiar, so that would likely help with my reading comprehension even if I don't already know some of the vocabulary.

>>9107974
that cover is so good

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>>9108198
Personally, my favourite cover is the original.
>those colours
hnngg

>>9108242
Who made this one, btw? It's truly amazing.

>>9109369
I'm pretty sure Tolkien drew those original covers.