An aside concerning the matter of women as Walkers of the Fellowship: It is interesting to note that women constitute an overwhelming majority of the Barrow-Downs constituency in the "Walk to Rivendell" project. Very few Barrow-Downer males started, and even less have stayed.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled arguments.
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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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