Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 3, 1892 - September 2, 1973
Birthday: January 3
Death: September 2
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
topic: Fire, Escaping, Uncomfortable Situations, Goblin, Frying Pans