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Thank you for those quotes Ardamir.
I've also found this, from the Hobbit:
"As a boy he (Bilbo) used to practice throwing stones at things, until rabbits and squirrels, and even birds, got out of his way as quick as lightning if they saw him stoop."
I remember being shocked by that when I first read the Hobbit as a little girl.
I had been led to believe that only very naughty, nasty boys threw stones at animals....
Oh, and after this quote there is the passage Elianna mentioned about quoits, bowls and so on. All very nice traditional English pub-and-village green games.
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