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The Hobbit: Chapter 17, The Clouds Burst, Part 1 - with Second Breakfast

That's What I'm Tolkien About

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The Arkanstone Is a Curse

There's, there's something strange here with the ring and the way the dwarfs are so rigid in even their treatment of bilbo. It doesn't feel like they ever accept him. And i'm thinking that maybe the treasure itself is some kind of curse. See how once he breaks free of that, and he literally leaves the mountain and has physical distance, maybe that's what kind of helps him escape that bewilderment. Yeitsi’m trying to think as this.

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