My favorite character shows up only indirectly - it's the fabulous Belladonna Took, Bilbo's mother! What a woman that must have been, to have impressed Gandalf so much that he chose her son for adventures!
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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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