Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a pro…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Hobbit, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Hobbit, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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