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09-18-2005, 06:02 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers.
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I've always thought of it as a compliment- and an apology. Bilbo is admitting that he hasn't made the effort to know them as well as he should, and he admits that they would have been worth knowing.
And being Bilbo, he does it in such a way as to completely befuddle them, as I'm sure he intended.
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