yep, he covered his tracks nicely.
but methinks it was still as are so many things in the Hobbit, a holdover from a time when non-beleriandic M-E was still as soft putty in the 'translators' mind.
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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