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Originally Posted by Urwen
Wait, they wrote in that book with blood?  |
What, did you think Bilbo took a pen and inkwell along to write his diary with?
Nah, so the Magna Carta exhibit at Salisbury Cathedral had this whole thing about how the ink is made from oak galls and iron salts. Wikipedia's "ink" article has a big block quote about ink recipes which are all iron-based too, so I figure it's likely what the Hobbits used.
hS