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  • I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a green great dragon', but had to say 'a great green dragon'. I wondered why, and still do. The fact that I remember this is possibly significant, as I do not think I ever tried to write a story again for many years, and was taken up with language.

    J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt