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THis brings up the issue, then, that if we are going to perform a sweeping edit, we've got to find something else for them to bicker about. In TOlkien's world, what *were* the plausible insults?
"For some elves tease and laugh at them, and most of all at their beards."
"Don't dip your beard in the foam, father! It is long enough without watering it."
"Mind Bilbo doesn't eat all the cakes! He is too fat to fit through key-holes yet."
Old treasure wars?
The laws of hospitality?
Food for thought.
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