00100	Fadragor is a young hobbit in the beginning, but he
00200	becomes the wise old scientist in the course of time.
00300	
00400	The young hobbits are sent to the East of Mordor to clean
00500	out Orcs which involves poisoning wells.  Two young hobbits
00600	spy on separate poisoned wells and see orcesses and young
00700	orcs come down to drink.  One hobbit warns them and the other
00800	doesn't.  They discuss it later and decide that the orcs
00900	should not be poisoned and should have been warned.  However,
01000	there is no sense of guilt or guilt ploys.
01100	
01200	The well-poisoning issue is taken up with the king, and
01300	the hobbits are over-awed into co-operation, but some of
01400	them continue to sabotage the project and the eventual
01500	departure of the hobbits from Gondor is over this issue.
01600	
01700	Young Fadragor is not suited for spying, perhaps he is injured
01800	by orcs whom he warns.  Left around the castle at Gondor, he
01900	gets acquainted with the dwarves and systematizes and makes
02000	scientific their knowledge of magic.  The zone refining of
02100	ringgold requires that the gold be plated thickly on a steel
02200	or mithril rod that is kept in torsion.  Besides the thaumaturgical
02300	separator, we need a thaumaturgical amplifier.
02400	
02500	Expedition to the Crack of Doom.  Perhaps there should be a
02600	rock climbing story here analogous to the Yosemite crack of
02700	doom.
02800	Maybe the solution to the amplifier problem should be found there.
02900	
03000	Appreciation of the "railroad" between the Shire and Gondor.  What
03100	should it be?
03200	
03300	Flight if invented should be low and slow and quiet but require
03400	frequent stops.
03500	Its magical fuel runs out and is restored by contact with the earth.
03600	
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03800	
03900	As the Shire becomes politically important, the other lands are
04000	tempted to fight with it.  The hobbits want to avoid all fighting,
04100	but they see that neither appearing weak nor appearing strong
04200	will do it.  They decide they will have to fight someone, and they
04300	decide to make it extremely unpleasant to fight with them.
04400	Namely, if you want to fight with the hobbits you must do it
04500	at night, in swamps and caves and burrows, and in foul weather.
04600	Skirmishes with the hobbits are long, boring, tiring, and the
04700	food gives you diarrhea.