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| | | Author: | axaday  | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2023 22:23 | | Subject: | Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 209 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2023 22:42 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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I'm sure it was at Gandalf's request, otherwise Bilbo could have been
captured by the Enemy and given up who knows what information.
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| | | | | Author: | WILYKAT | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2023 22:49 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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Could be because Bilbo is far older than most Hobbits due to the cursed ring
and gets special treatment. It's also why he was invited to go on a long
trip with most of the remaining elves at the end of LotR.
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| | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2023 23:43 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2023 23:51 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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For his part in helping stave-off the evil/darkness that grew in Middle Earth?
And for perhaps after being asked to voluntarily give up the corrupting ring
of power which he possessed for decades, he did?
Elrond and Gandalf would both have known somewhat of that cost for Bilbo. That
although he’d find peace of mind, his body would suffer the effects accelerated
aging. Rivendell with Elrond’s unparalleled Elvish gift of healing, was probably
the one place he could find some amount of bodily comfort before joining the
Elves on their passage. That was the real gift for both Bilbo and Frodo, passage
into the undying lands.
For those that enjoy the works and worlds of Tolkien, read The Silmarillion.
Little more difficult a read, but a beautifully rich story! It was published
posthumously by his son much later than The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books.
I read it twice just after it was made available in book stores, in Stockholm
at the time.
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Still hoping they make the simarillion into movies (extremely unlikely but who
knows) since apparently they are making a new Lotr movie we can hope it is gunna
be great even tho it’s unlikely but their is always a chance!
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2023 23:53 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 00:00 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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For his part in helping stave-off the evil/darkness that grew in Middle Earth?
And for perhaps after being asked to voluntarily give up the corrupting ring
of power which he possessed for decades, he did?
Elrond and Gandalf would both have known somewhat of that cost for Bilbo. That
although he’d find peace of mind, his body would suffer the effects accelerated
aging. Rivendell with Elrond’s unparalleled Elvish gift of healing, was probably
the one place he could find some amount of bodily comfort before joining the
Elves on their passage. That was the real gift for both Bilbo and Frodo, passage
into the undying lands.
For those that enjoy the works and worlds of Tolkien, read The Silmarillion.
Little more difficult a read, but a beautifully rich story! It was published
posthumously by his son much later than The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books.
I read it twice just after it was made available in book stores, in Stockholm
at the time.
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Still hoping they make the simarillion into movies (extremely unlikely but who
knows) since apparently they are making a new Lotr movie we can hope it is gunna
be great even tho it’s unlikely but their is always a chance!
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If done by the right people, The Silmarillion as a film production would be off
the charts!
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Agreed! It would have to be 10-20 movies tho 
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 00:13 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 06:17 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Agreed! It would have to be 10-20 movies tho
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With someone of Peter Jackson's ilk at the helm, it could easily be 30+ movies!
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 12:15 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, peregrinator writes:
| | In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Agreed! It would have to be 10-20 movies tho
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With someone of Peter Jackson's ilk at the helm, it could easily be 30+ movies!
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If it was someone (not sure if he’s retired) like him or him they would be all
amazing
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| | | | | | | Author: | cycbuild | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 00:15 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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For his part in helping stave-off the evil/darkness that grew in Middle Earth?
And for perhaps after being asked to voluntarily give up the corrupting ring
of power which he possessed for decades, he did?
Elrond and Gandalf would both have known somewhat of that cost for Bilbo. That
although he’d find peace of mind, his body would suffer the effects accelerated
aging. Rivendell with Elrond’s unparalleled Elvish gift of healing, was probably
the one place he could find some amount of bodily comfort before joining the
Elves on their passage. That was the real gift for both Bilbo and Frodo, passage
into the undying lands.
For those that enjoy the works and worlds of Tolkien, read The Silmarillion.
Little more difficult a read, but a beautifully rich story! It was published
posthumously by his son much later than The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books.
I read it twice just after it was made available in book stores, in Stockholm
at the time.
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+1
And re-read the Lord of the Rings! 50 year-old Frodo is the best hobbit and there's
entire chapters the films had to leave out, and The Return of the King has Saruman's
alternate ending (and half-filled with side stories).
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 01:09 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | cycbuild | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 02:53 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | For sure. I read them several times back-to-back in the late 70s. I subsequently
started in on The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant books and quickly became immersed
in Donaldson's amazing fictional works, forgetting much of Tolkien's
until the movies. Movie form is just too abbreviated to ever do such literary
works well enough, imho.
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True. Faithful adaptions (if not word-for-frame, in spirit) are few and far between.
I always hope the showrunners have an Oprah moment while endowing side characters
with speaking roles.
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| | | | | Author: | cycbuild | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2023 23:52 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond?
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I think a certain kinship existed between all Ring-bearers. Even when friendship
and hospitality were not especially earned; Galadriel to Frodo; Frodo to Smeagol.
Elrond allowed the One Ring to be claimed by Men, and may have felt responsible
for how things turned out. And Bilbo, for his part, gave all of Middle-Earth
a second chance.
| | Will Elrond put up anyone who will follow the rules?
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If you speak in Orcish, he replaces the continental breakfast with a crumb of
lembas bread.
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| | | | | | | Author: | pcthurman | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 03:13 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, cycbuild1136 writes:
| | In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond?
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I think a certain kinship existed between all Ring-bearers. Even when friendship
and hospitality were not especially earned; Galadriel to Frodo; Frodo to Smeagol.
Elrond allowed the One Ring to be claimed by Men, and may have felt responsible
for how things turned out. And Bilbo, for his part, gave all of Middle-Earth
a second chance.
| | Will Elrond put up anyone who will follow the rules?
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If you speak in Orcish, he replaces the continental breakfast with a crumb of
lembas bread.
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 04:14 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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Because Elrond (and Gandalf) knew Sauron had captured Gollum and tried to (and
continued to) use him to get to the Ring. They knew Bilbo was likely next and
so him being in Rivendell both protected him but also protected any information
he knew about the Ring.
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| | | | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 07:35 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
| | In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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Because Elrond (and Gandalf) knew Sauron had captured Gollum and tried to (and
continued to) use him to get to the Ring. They knew Bilbo was likely next and
so him being in Rivendell both protected him but also protected any information
he knew about the Ring.
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So he was a prisoner and didn't know it or didn't own it.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 08:06 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
| | In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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Because Elrond (and Gandalf) knew Sauron had captured Gollum and tried to (and
continued to) use him to get to the Ring. They knew Bilbo was likely next and
so him being in Rivendell both protected him but also protected any information
he knew about the Ring.
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So he was a prisoner and didn't know it or didn't own it.
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Bilbo always has been a friend of the Elves. Going to meet those who passed
through the Shire atfer his expedition to the East.
And you need to think antiquity & middle-ages’ hospitality¹, not modern times’
“what’s in it for me?” 
¹ All the mythologies, legends, stories of those times show people being received
as honored guests, whoever they were, even murderous exiles. Maybe it’s not
how it really worked but it’s how the people of those times were imagining it
should work and those stories were how these ideas were diffused.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 22:15 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
| | In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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Because Elrond (and Gandalf) knew Sauron had captured Gollum and tried to (and
continued to) use him to get to the Ring. They knew Bilbo was likely next and
so him being in Rivendell both protected him but also protected any information
he knew about the Ring.
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So he was a prisoner and didn't know it or didn't own it.
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Bilbo always has been a friend of the Elves. Going to meet those who passed
through the Shire atfer his expedition to the East.
And you need to think antiquity & middle-ages’ hospitality¹, not modern times’
“what’s in it for me?”
¹ All the mythologies, legends, stories of those times show people being received
as honored guests, whoever they were, even murderous exiles. Maybe it’s not
how it really worked but it’s how the people of those times were imagining it
should work and those stories were how these ideas were diffused.
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I saw more bad hospitality than good in the Lord of the Rings.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2023 22:35 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | I saw more bad hospitality than good in the Lord of the Rings.
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Things were different back then.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2023 06:51 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | I saw more bad hospitality than good in the Lord of the Rings.
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"The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late, Théoden son of Thengel."
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2023 09:10 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, peregrinator writes:
| | In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | I saw more bad hospitality than good in the Lord of the Rings.
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"The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late, Théoden son of Thengel."
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Exactly 
That’s one of Tolkien’s points in Lord of the Rings: times are changing (end
of the Third Age), things were better before (when were they not?), Evil is spreading,
olden ways are being forgotten… but there’s still islands of hope: the last Elves,
the last Dwarves, budding scions of well-rooted trees in Gondor & Rohan, and,
surprising for most, small, insignificant Hobbits.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2023 06:49 | | Subject: | Re: Rent Free in Rivendell? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
| | In Off Topic, axaday writes:
| | As I am sitting here building 10316-1, I suddenly wondered why Elrond put Bilbo
up. I know Bilbo helped Thorin, but did he help Elrond? Will Elrond put up
anyone who will follow the rules?
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Because Elrond (and Gandalf) knew Sauron had captured Gollum and tried to (and
continued to) use him to get to the Ring. They knew Bilbo was likely next and
so him being in Rivendell both protected him but also protected any information
he knew about the Ring.
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So he was a prisoner and didn't know it or didn't own it.
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In a way yes - when Bilbo first sees Frodo again in Rivendell after *checks notes*
18 years or so, he mentions that he thought of going back for the Ring but that
Gandalf and Elrond wouldn't let him:
"I hear all kinds of news, from over the Mountains, and out of the South,
but hardly anything from the Shire. I heard about the Ring, of course. Gandalf
has been here often. Not that he has told me a great deal, he has become closer
than ever these last few years. The Dunadan has told me more. Fancy that ring
of mine causing such a disturbance! It is a pity that Gandalf did not find out
more sooner. I could have brought the thing here myself long ago without so much
trouble. I have thought several times of going back to Hobbiton for it; but I
am getting old, and they would not let me: Gandalf and Elrond, I mean. They seemed
to think that the Enemy was looking high and low for me, and would make mincemeat
of me, if he caught me tottering about in the Wild."
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