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Originally Posted by davem
And a couple of questions: first, when Sam finds Frodo ‘dead’ he wishes to make a cairn over him, but can’t find enough stones.
Is this a primary world tradition placed in Middle earth? And does it tell us something about Hobbit funerary practices?
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I think it has to do more with Sam have no digging implements (what? pans?), a general reluctance to burn him (if the Hobbits are like Numenoreans, then this would be a no-no; besides, Sam wants to come back and die by Frodo's body), as well as no fuel to do so. So a cairn would seem like the most available option. Or so I read it.