‘He sounds like a very strange creature, this thief of yours,’ said a young Dwarf called Fili (Thorin’s nephew, as I afterwards learned). ‘What is his name, or the one that he uses?’
‘Hobbits use their real names,’ I said. ‘The only one that he has is Bilbo Baggins.’
‘What a name!’ said Fili, and laughed.
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
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