ROTK: part two quotes

[Lostgaeriel]

That was Merry to Sam, Frodo, Pippin & Gandalf as they 'passed through the West-gate of Bree and on towards the Shire'. [Homeward Bound]

'I wonder what old Barliman was hinting at,' said Frodo.
'I can guess some of it,' said Sam gloomily. 'What I saw in the Mirror: trees cut down and all, and my old gaffer turned out of the Row. I ought to have hurried back quicker.'
'And something's wrong with the Soutfarthing evidently,' said Merry. 'There's a general shortage of pipe-weed.'