With so much talk of banners and flags, isn't there a sport that involves banner waving? (Sorry, I don't know what it's called officially.) After this past weekend, I would send a few Greeks back to Middle-earth to help the more staid Gondorians practice...
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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