52. Eggplant: Teresita, I suspect you have not actually read “The Hobbit” because Bilbo got knocked on the head fairly early in the Battle of Five Armies and woke up after most of the action was over. Your example proves my point that the story was toned down for kids.

“…rocks were stained black with goblin blood…many of their own wolves were turning upon them and rending the dead and the wounded…great bats…fastened vampire-like on the stricken…they were piled in heaps till Dale was dark and hideous with their corpses…”

Kiddie fare indeed.