Have you ever wondered how authors can paint themselves into an impossible situation or puzzle, only to figure out a realistic solution? Bilbo is in just such a scenario here. How does he, and Tolkien, get through this?

They manage to cross the river, but things immediately get even stranger - strange voices, deer, magical sleep, and symbolic trees...

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