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It seems to me that you have a luck that you can trust. But take also a long rope, for you may need it, unless my foresight deceives me.
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That's the parson, speaking to
Farmer Giles of Ham of something that Tolkien apparently thought important (see LotR) - packing a rope as a precaution!
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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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