A allusion to this?
Tolkien may have been very distantly alluding to all this in LotR, in the episode 'A Conspiracy Unmasked'. In it, Merry told Frodo that because he suspected that the latter was going to leave the Shire, he formed a conspiracy with Pippin, Sam and Fatty. He then said:
'But if you want to be introduced to our chief investigator, I can produce him.'
'Where is he?' said Frodo, looking around, as if he expected a masked and sinister figure to come out of a cupboard.
'Step forward, Sam!' said Merry; and Sam stood up with a face scarlet up to the ears.
(LotR, Book 1, Chapter V)
What do people think?
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