Ah,now it makes sense! 
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And after all he never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning; but being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope as long as despair could be postponed.
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This is about Sam! ( I always wondered how one could be cheerful and yet without hope...some time ago I was musing on this in the old "hope & hopelessness thread.)
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Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat
our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!
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