Fortunately, Sam and Pippin had been searching for the Gaffer to ask him to settle a dispute over the best way to grow taters. They were therefore in the vicinity when the ring was dropped and Pippin picked it up before the Orcs noticed it lying on the ground next to the Gaffer's abandoned garden tools.
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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.
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