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What characters journey really bothered you? (lazysoci.al)
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[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 15 points 5 months ago

The fact that the Shire is a paradise is exactly why Frodo couldn't stay. The people there could never understand what he had been through. The horrors of war, the hardship he endured.