Nor was he content merely to read about dragons. When he was about seven he began to compose his own story about a dragon. “I remember nothing about it except a philological fact,” he recalled. “My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say ‘a green great dragon‘, but had to say as ‘great green dragon‘. I wondered why and still do.”
Good question Mr. Tolkien. I‘ve wondered the same.
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