I think walking is one of the big themes - from Bilbo's walking song, Frodo's walks through the Shire, the Nine Walkers (as opposed to the Nine Riders), to the fact that the king not only answers to the name of Strider, but makes the elvish translation of it - Telcontar - the name of his house.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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