This highly interesting discussion on oaths and oath-breaking is worth its own thread! Though the examples are interesting and enlightening, we don't want to get too far ahead of the current chapter discussion or too far off-tangent in the Legendarium. Who would like to begin a new thread about it on the Books main forum?
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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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