Topiary

Our Morris dancing gardener has Plans for this bush in our front garden. Topiary type Plans. Realisation of said Plans is in its early stages at present. Any ideas what the end result might be?

On the unconcernedness of dwarves

This has always worried me. Thirty years ago, Balin and the others go to Moria, a place known to be riddled with dangers, to settle it. For a few years, encouraging messages are sent back to Erebor. We later learn that the entire lot of them were wiped out five years later. By the time of The Lord of the Rings, therefore, there have been no messages for 25 years.

Now, I accept that this is world without Skype and social media. This (below) is not a possibility.

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