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Yes, the word itself suggested the mewlips to me as well, but there doesn't seem to be any other similarity. I wonder if they're a kind of insect, perhaps - though the "mousy" smell seems rather to suggest a very small mammal. Why would TB imagine them to slide down from the Moon?!
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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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