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NPR Books asks, \u201cWas Gollum Done In By Vitamin D Deficiency?\u201d The query is prompted by a new paper in the Medical Journal of Australia, positing that creepy cave-dwellers (rarely the hero) are often victims not of motiveless malignancy, but a lack of sun. \u201cSystematic textual analysis of The Hobbit supports our initial hypothesis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[12409,2640,12410],"class_list":["post-63887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-gollum","tag-the-hobbit","tag-vitamin-d"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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