En op 20 april 2002 sprak matthew wickline:
> He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in
> the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their
> king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club.
> It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went
> down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was
> won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.
>
> The Hobbit or There and Back Again
> J.R.R. Tolkien
But that's the wrong kind of Golf, I'm afraid. However, 272 years
later...
'Forty-two, Master Legolas!' he cried ... 'How is it with you?'
'You have passed my score by one,' answered Legolas. 'But I do not
grudge you the game, so glad am I to see you on your legs!'
Lord of the Rings III.8
J.R.R. Tolkien
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But the shortest works are always the best. -- Jean de la Fontaine
