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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Should've been Balin
Only that it always seemed to me that there was an abiding affinity beteween Bilbo and Balin or maybe just that JRRT always featured Balin so prominently that the patterns of story-telling anticipate that he should have come first. It is a conventional expectation on my part, no doubt.
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