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The lesser rings were only essays in the craft before it was full-grown, and to the Elven -smiths they were but trifles - yet still to my mind dangerous for mortals.

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'To tell you the truth,' replied Gandalf, 'I believe that hitherto-hitherto , mark you - he has entirely overlooked the existence of hobbits.

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Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die

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Frodo took it from his breeches, where it was clasped to a chain that hung from his belt.

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Trolls were abroad, no longer dull-witted, but cunning and armed with dreadful weapons

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If that's where you get your news from, you'll never want for moonshine.

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But I warrant you haven't seen them doing it; nor any one else in the Shire.'

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The rumours that you have heard are true: he has indeed arisen again and left his hold in Mirkwood and returned to his ancient fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor.

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Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.'

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So it went on, until his forties were running out, and his fiftieth birthday was drawing near: fifty was a number that he felt was somehow significant (or ominous); it was at any rate at that age that adventure had suddenly befallen Bilbo.