Spammers are coming up with some weird tactics. While the following came with a .gif I didn't open, it was otherwise unattributed, despite being titled, 'the cred.'
jewels and carvings and cups, and the toy-market of Dale was the wonder of the North.Now, if I didn't know better, I should think that the passage seemed somehow familiar. I'm sure John Ronald Reuel would be quite pleased to see his work used in this fashion.
Undoubtedly that was what brought the dragon. Dragons steal gold and jewels, you know, from men and elves and dwarves, wherever they can find them; and they guard their plunder as long as they live (which is practically forever, unless they are killed), and never enjoy a brass ring of it. Indeed they hardly know a good bit of work from a bad, though they usually have a good notion of the current market value; and they cant make a thing for themselves, not even mend a little loose scale of their armour. There were lots of dragons in the North in those days, and gold was probably getting scarce up there, with the dwarves flying south or getting killed, and all the general waste and destruction that dragons make going from bad to worse. There was a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm called Smaug. One day he flew up into the air and came south. The first we heard of it was a noise like a hurricane coming from the North, and the pine-trees on the
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