Change a Letter III

[Jubal]

It is, alas, Tusky's only hope.

[Tusky]

Well, maybe I do have enough of them at home

[Jubal]

I'm glad you have some.

[Tusky]

Including a tome about history

[Glaurung]

Sometimes books have to be chained - is it tame?

[Jubal]

I could tell you how it was brought to its current, human friendly state, but 'twould be a long, long tale.


(Also, given the subject was and has been for over a page taps, I'm not sure how the category of taps includes "a tome about history...")

[Glaurung]

I pale at the thought of it.

(The subject might now be the coin which Tusky might or might not have at home, rather than the taps he still needs. Maybe the tome is so valuable as to count as coin, or it's a history of coin, or taps, or both? Maybe he could buy the taps with the coin, and save us from the increasingly dense meta-analysis into which we're sinking?)

[Tusky]

Although perhaps we do have time to hear it? Or are we rushing at a fast pace

(I was just listing something I also had in my fictional home, since I apparently came to the decision that I had a sufficient amount of taps. Just to change the subject, really)

[Jubal]

We're going to end up in a bad place one way or t'other.

[Tusky]

Gosh that's a worry. I have quite a lot on my plate as it is!

[Jubal]

Try serving things on a slate instead?

[Tusky]

True. Maybe that way we won't be in such a bad state

[Jubal]

Stote turns out to be a valid albeit archaic spelling of stoat.

[Tusky]

I bet you have quite a store of facts like that!

[Jubal]

I just stole this one from the internet honestly.