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   From: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   On 2012-04-19, derek  wrote:   
   > I've always had some trouble with this section.  Like Stan, I always   
      
   To generalize a bit, I've always had trouble with the entire   
   Ringwraiths-in-the-Shire story. It seems really hard to find any   
   convincing internal explanation of why they didn't just grab Frodo   
   on one of the many opportunities they had. Then on Weathertop, the   
   idea than Aragorn was enough to fend off five wraiths is pretty far   
   fetched - why mess around with morgul knives, instead of just having   
   four of them hold down/kill Aragorn while the Witch-King takes Frodo?   
      
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