With all their trodding underfoot tactics and scuttling about trying to toss rings of power
into fiery volcanoes the Hobbit writers are missing the point that traditional publishing has its place, and a very useful place it is.
The author tells us that on timescales of 35 million years and more the Earth actually «breathes,» exhaling carbon dioxide from
volcanoes and hot springs (many of the latter undersea), and inhaling it from the atmosphere
into the oceans and forests — and eventually
into the rocky crust, or even the
fiery mantle beneath.