As a public service every once in a while I will run an article titled didja ever notice. These will be just short little pieces where I will make a small observation. Todays didja concerns Professor Tolkiens propensity to give a great many of the bad guys names starting with the letter
S. Lets see there is chief baddy
Sauron and there is the traitorous
Saruman. The evil spider queen
Shelob. The orc leader
Shagrat. There is the Dragon
Smaug, and of course
Smeagol ( Gollum ). it seems the good Professor had some problem with the letter
S. Just an observation.