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I think we also have to remember that Frodo is older than Sam.
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That's an excellent point,
davem! I wonder, are we all so affected by the movie Frodo and Sam, where Sam is somewhat older than Frodo, that we forget that the age difference was the other way around?! We don't even have to go to England, class differences, and Tolkien's time to find something similar - when I was growing up in Midwest US some years ago, we wouldn't have dreamed of calling people our parents' age by their first names - it was Mr. and Mrs., definitely. I know things have changed, with college profs being first-named by their students, but that is a fairly recent development, and not the case all over the world - certainly not here in Germany, unless the person involved explicitly permits it.
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