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How Did William the Troll Come to Own a Talking Purse in The Hobbit?

09.18.2023 - By Joshua ScottPlay

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In response to my request for video topics, viewer mariayonde suggested I might have been a bit hasty in concluding that William’s talking purse in The Hobbit was just a fanciful embellishment by Bilbo to

make his story more appealing to a younger audience. Instead, what

if the purse was a Dwarf-made magical purse that came to the trolls

the same way as the rest of their hoard, which contained famed swords

from Gondolin? Here are my thoughts on this theory.

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