So I was reading The Hobbit to my five-year-old daughter, and I got to the part where Bilbo is riddling with Gollum. Just before Bilbo asks Gollum that fateful question, “What have I got in my pocket?” Gollum hisses, “Ask us! Ask us!”

I got just that far, and then Anne offered her considered opinion of Gollum: “He’s so bossy!“.

Well, yes, I guess so; but I guess it takes a five-year-old girl to see that as Gollum’s dominant trait.