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Context-driven catchwords?

FarFromHome
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Aug 2 2012, 6:08pm


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"rocks and blocks" are mentioned together with "tinder and flint", which seems a comic relief for the father telling this pretty terrifying story to his child/ren.

But then the Dwarves laid the table in Bag-end before you could say "knife". Is this a hint that Dwarves are faster than goblins?
The goblins come through the crack in the rock wall before you could say "rocks and blocks"

Gandalf manages to strike a light before you could say "tinder and flint"

And as you reminded us (thank you!), the laying of the table happens before Bilbo could say "knife".

I can't help noticing that the things you can't say fast enough seem to match rather nicely to the things that happen while you're trying to say them!

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They went in, and Sam shut the door.
But even as he did so, he heard suddenly,
deep and unstilled,
the sigh and murmur of the Sea upon the shores of Middle-earth.
From the unpublished Epilogue to the Lord of the Rings

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