I could see it just being a guy with a donkey's jaw being way less visually interesting than if he was holding a sword because of course it would be less visually interesting. It's just a weird thing to imagine at a time when people had lamer storytelling so they just accepted it.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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