Having been a very young reader, and being the kind who prefers to just get caught up in a story, I got "fooled" by just about everything, with two exceptions. I knew halfway through the trip from Edoras to Minas Tirith that Dernhelm was Eowyn. The other one it the fault of my older brother, who asked me, "have you gotten to the part where Gandalf dies?" Grrrr! "Gandalf dies! He can't die." "Well, you'll see," he replies with that secretive grin of his. So I guessed that Gandalf was both going to die and come back again, before I had ever heard of balrogs. Hrumph.
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