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"House": I think Tolkien used both sides of what is traditionally a dual meaning in English usage- A) House meaning a ruling or powerful family, related by blood or at least marriage; and B) House meaning the above together with all their retainers and followers; their faction. Think Montagus and Capulets. (He also has Saruman pun(?) on a third, "physical dwelling" in his nasty jibe at the House of Eorl.)
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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