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227 – Where Sméagols Dare

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Tolkin's Ao Gandal Cornella

This is from the tolkin papers at the bodlean library in oxford. The text gives us a good idea of what he looks like, but let's be honest, tolkin himself can always give us a better idea. So gallan was, according to gandalf, one of a riverside hobbet people, and therefore, in origin, a member of a small variety of the human race. Although he had become deformed during his long inhabiting of the dark lake, he was very thin and the lord of the rings, emaciated. His skin was white, no doubt, with a pallor increased by dwelling long in the dark and later by hunger

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