The wide world is all about you:
you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
GILDOR
you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
GILDOR
All’s well as ends well;
though perhaps we should not say that 'till we reach our own doors.
FARMER MAGGOT
September 25: The hobbits, now in Crickhollow, unmask their conspiracy and prepare to leave the Shire - their oasis is no longer any protection, and the only course of action available is the most dangerous.
Gildor's words from the previous night ring true, as, unwittingly, do those of Farmer Maggot, who was not to know just how long it would be before the hobbits finally would reach their own doors.
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