Help!
I'm learning English only at school but I hope you will understand me. I'm interested rather in literary style, even in archaic. I've got a question and I'm frustrated for nobody could answer me.
I know that a lot of verbs have irregular and regular forms (for example - 'dwell') and in the UK the regular is more common. But I noticed that in books written by English writers the regular forms of the verbs: dream, burn, bless, leap, smell and learn - in Past Simple are more common. Nay! in "The Hobbit" (J.R.R.Tolkien) - I didn't found any "dreamt" or "burnt". I also saw "I blessed him" in the Biblie, and so forth.
I know that the regular forms are often used as adjectives or participles ("a dreamed house"). But why in Past Simple?!

I hope that there's someone who can help me...

Greetings,