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   From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   In rec.arts.books.tolkien Paul S Person  wrote:   
   > On 7 Jan 2026 18:01:15 GMT, Stephan Seitz    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>In rec.arts.books.tolkien Paul S Person  wrote:   
   >>> Well, have you considered the possibility that Frodo, having lost a   
   >>> finger, is in shock and not thinking clearly? And reacting to Sam the   
   >>   
   >>I doubt it. Frodo was awake hours before Sam woke up, but slept again.   
   >>Nothing indicates that he was in anyway bewildered. Sam showed more   
   >>signs than Frodo.   
   >   
   > You snipped this:   
   >   
   >>Louis Epstein  quotes and asks:   
   >>>Both of them refer to Frodo speaking to Sam on the slopes of Orodruin   
   >>>after the collapse of Barad-dur...there would not be confusion over whether   
   >>>this is a repetition of the exact same speech if there were any clear   
   >>>distinction.   
   >   
   > It has been a long time since I read the book, but am I really to   
   > understand that Frodo and Sam took hours-long naps after the Ring went   
   > into the Cracks of Doom while waiting for the Eagles?   
   >   
   > And I didn't say "bewildered". I said "in shock". Losing a finger by   
   > having it bitten off by Gollum tends to do that to people.   
      
   How large a sample size of similarly affected individuals are you   
   relying on to posit this conclusion?   
      
   > Very strange. Perhaps, the next time I have a pause in my eBook   
   > reading, it would be time to reread (some of) JRRT.   
      
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