My all-time favorite 'insignificant' lines are these: (They were my signature quote for a long time during my first months here on the Downs.)
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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 names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-earth and Over-heaven and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less? But I am not in a hurry tonight."
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They are so characteristic of the two persons involved and show their personalities so vividly. I think that these little touches of characterization are what make the book so alive! And incidentally, Pippin's all-encompassing curiosity is similar in scope to my own!
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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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