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In Ireland, distress is greatest when provisions are cheapest; then we see famine without dearth; hunger amidst superabundance of provisions; farmers without a market; labourers without the means of purchase.
Why they later undertook the hard and perilous crossing of the mountains into Eriador is no longer certain.
The road goes north-west and meanders through pleasant vales and pastures.
Thus, the only craft little practiced among them was shoe-making; but they had long and skillful fingers and could make many other useful and comely things.
The impossibility of bringing this tale to the big screen would daunt any sane filmmaker.
He stopped, but ere long, he continued to tap the carriage floor with the heels of his polished black shoes.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
The last battle, before this story opens, and indeed the only one that had ever been fought within the borders of the Shire, was beyond living memory: the Battle of Greenfields, S.R. 1147, in which Bandobras Took routed an invasion of Orcs.
Forty leagues it stretched from the Far Downs to the Brandywine Bridge, and fifty from the northern moors to the marshes in the south.
During the summer months, they often seek shelter behind loose boards, under eaves or shingles, in attics and church belfries, and so on.