It became very dangerous for Fatty Bolger to be disguised as Frodo when three Black Riders came to the house at Crickhollow. For more, read Chapter 11 of FotR, "A Knife in the Dark". Had he not been alert, he would have been killed before they found out that he didn't have the Ring.
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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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