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| Authored by: mcinsand on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 12:01 PM EST |
Although The One Ring had a lot of value, it was also a huge burden. Bilbo
versus Dwarves, Inc. could have been a fun suit to watch, especially if Bilbo's
attorneys had argued that he deserved an enhanced share because of the ring's
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 01:17 PM EST |
Spoiler alert . . .
The riddle challenge's terms were for Bilbo to surrender to being eaten by
Gollumn, or shown the way out of the goblin tunnels, depending on who won the
challenge.
Having found the One Ring on the floor of an underground tunnel, it would seem,
in my opinion, to be "party treasure" (to use a table-top
role-playing-game term), unless Bilbo wanted to attempt to qualify it as a tool
of burglary, within the terms of the contract.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 04 2013 @ 03:59 PM EST |
I remember that J.R.R. himself opined about the legitimacy of the riddle
contest. This is from memory about 35 years back, but he said that, while
Bilbo's was not a fair question, not being a riddle, Gollum's acceptance of the
question made it legal by the terms of the contest.
-- Alma[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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