Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything ne…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Hobbit, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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