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My deduction is that Tolkien intended the Shire to feel like a late-Victorian English village- that's why hobbits drink beer, and I would expect that beer to be hop-flavored English ale, not lager, nor any ancient-world concoction.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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