[MorvaShepley]

My son loved the hobbit in a statistical sort of way. His reports on the progress of the adventurers went something like "Mum, there's 13 dwarves and one wizard, and they've had 23 adventures in 19 chapters, if you count Bombur falling into the river ..."

I'm not good with numbers so I have mis-remembered them here, but you get the idea.