 | - It is not certain whether or not Tolkien's elves had pointed ears.
- Elrond was thousands of years old at the time of The Hobbit.
- Tolkien included the episode with spiders because he knew his children were frightened of spiders and he wanted to scare them when they read the story!
- Attercop is from Old English and means poison-head.
- Tomnoddy means astupid or foolish person.
- Cob and Lob both mean spider.
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