Whats the deal with Bilbo being some kind of burglar? “If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself ” So no, Bilbo is not a skilled burglar, and he does not think of himself as suited for burglary in any way If he has any predisposition for burglary, it's his nature as a
80s-90s Female Cat Burglar accepts only Sapphires as payment Meanwhile in interludes, or maybe flashbacks, they are relating the events of her life, and how she became a cat burglar I don't remember anything about any of the jobs Other than sometimes the people who hire her, try to get her to take other forms of payment Despite her insistence of only accepting gems as payment when they hire her to a job
How could Thorin and co. journey all the way to Erebor without . . . The dwarves trust the competence of a professional burglar selected by Gandalf The burglar will need to see the configuration of Smaug's cave, especially the side door, before deciding anything Gandalf knows that Bilbo has reserves of courage and cleverness that he is not using, and will never use if he stays in his comfortable hole
Does Gandalf ever say this in the book The Hobbit, or is it made up . . . In the book Bilbo is also torn between comfort and adventure, but the struggle is internal: As [the dwarves] sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves
What classic mystery novels and stories led to the butler did it . . . Although the criminologist places the blame on Wareing’s butler, a reformed burglar, the killer is finally revealed to be Barton himself Detective stories with criminal butlers I could find no evidence for criminal butlers being a cliché in detective stories until after silent films had already run the trope into the ground
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short stories - Whats going on in Charlotte Riddells Old House in . . . The rattle is probably a police rattle: The origin of the rattle is not clear, but what has come to be known as the "Victorian Police Rattle" came into use sometime in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century when night watchmen and or village constables began using them to "raise the alarm"
poetry - Why in the midst of alarms in William Cowpers poem The . . . Specifically, the word "alarms" seems like a strange choice from a modern point of view: nowadays, it gives an impression of cacophonous noise (alarm clocks, car alarms, burglar alarms), but at the time of Cowper's writing, perhaps it was more commonly used, even as a count noun, in the sense of a feeling of danger
Middle-grade or YA book with a very smart teenager On a foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below It's Alfie McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying As sirens wail in the distance, Alfie manages to get out two last words to his young son, March: "Find jewels " But March learns that his father is not talking about a stash of loot