And they said it could not be done
My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say ‘a green great dragon’, but had to say ‘a great green dragon’. I wondered why, and still do.
https://www.tolkienestate.com/letters/letter-to-the-poet-w-h-auden-7-jun-1955/
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Tom Scott to the rescue: Adjectival Order: Why A "Big Red Balloon", not a "Red Big Balloon"?
TL;DW: There is an order, we mostly agree on what that order is, but we still have no idea why. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That feeling when you dig through the ditches and burn through the witches and slam in the back of your dragula