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CuriousG
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Oct 10 2012, 11:34pm
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Tolkien hates women (just kidding!)
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Reading your post, I started wondering to myself about Bilbo's references to his father's wisdom, especially since his mother was on the adventurous Took side and was described as "remarkable" or something similar--why wouldn't she have had worldly advice in abundance to impart to Bilbo? And then I thought of Sam forever quoting the Gaffer but not his mother, and I thought, "Here we go again, Tolkien can't write about women..." But I thought about it some more in my everyday life, and I notice that my friends all tend to quote one of their parents much more than the other. Friend A will say "my dad always says" and won't give their mother 50% of the quotes, and Friend B will do the reverse. Based on that very anecdotal and unscientific evidence, I think it's natural to quote one parent more than the other for any number of reasons. So, I guess Bilbo does it just because.
Another thought I had was: why would Bilbo's dad know anything about worm's and their weaknesses? But again thinking of personal experience, my father never stitched a thing in his life, but he would say things like "A stitch in time saves nine" if the context were right, and my mother would do the same (see, 50% for me), so some sayings get bandied about by anyone regardless of the speaker's personal expertise.
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***A glance back at "Not at Home"***
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Modtheow
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Oct 9 2012, 12:20am
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Proverbs
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Finding Frodo
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Oct 9 2012, 3:37am
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That dropped torch!
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dernwyn
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Oct 10 2012, 2:14am
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Keep calm and carry on
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telain
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Oct 10 2012, 4:07pm
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The Stone and the Ring
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justbennett
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Oct 9 2012, 4:57am
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What about his mother's wisdom?
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Modtheow
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Oct 10 2012, 3:10am
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Tolkien hates women (just kidding!)
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CuriousG
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Oct 10 2012, 11:34pm
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I know what you mean...
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telain
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Oct 10 2012, 3:59pm
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What a great idea!
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sador
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Oct 10 2012, 8:48am
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In Bilbo's Defense
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justbennett
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Oct 10 2012, 5:31pm
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one link not working
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Modtheow
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Oct 14 2012, 8:21pm
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Is it supposed to be this one?
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dernwyn
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Oct 14 2012, 11:43pm
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Yes, that's it.
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sador
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Oct 15 2012, 7:51am
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You're welcome!
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dernwyn
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Oct 17 2012, 1:55am
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