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But first they would need to invent some tape
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They could have fitted the whole ring / tape / mouse assembly into a small paper bag Aragorn could have kept it in his jacket and fed it little bits of lembas on the way how lovely x
Gollum would've jumped into the fires with the mouse and that wouldn't be ok.
Biblo not skewering Gollum the first time he met him was kind of understandable and very merciful of him, the fact that no one else did it makes me question the approach to logic people in Middle Earth have.
Literally, my reaction as a soldier of whatever nation when I see Gollum would be 'ew', stab
What you'd go around stabbing people with severe weight/hair loss?
Quite tolerant of unknown things that they don't understand aren't they?