I can understand your reasons not to come,
Lal and
davem, but I must admit, I wish you could. My experience (most recently at the annual meeting of the German Tolkien Society) is that children enliven things among all those adults - your Junior would be the star of the weekend! (Your presence would be reasonably welcome, of course, as his caretakers...

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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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