Interesting - the chestnuts I've opened in real life were not at all easy to crack! But I suppose some expressions are more traditional than true... (As if pie baking were easy - or have you ever tried taking candy from a baby?!)
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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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