Janice’s Reviews > The Fellowship of the Ring > Status Update

"Dear old Frodo!" said Pippin. "Did you really think you had thrown dust in our eyes? You have not been nearly carefull or clever enough for that! You have obviously been planning to go and saying farewell to all your haunts all this year since April. We have constantly heard you muttering: "Shall I ever look down into that valley again, I wonder", and things like that.

The foreword took a very long time; why was there like 5 minutes just about the history of smoking in the shire?