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 | | His Brandybuck sense of order, its rational philosophy, and all around civilization fled and a slightly untamed Tookishness engulfed him, as if he suddenly became more in tune with the animals in the woods than with the books in his father’s library. |
 | | Perhaps you had to be exactly half of each to see it, half Brandybuck with their love of lore and knowledge and educated lack of fear of the things outside the Shire, and half Took with their unquenchable boldness and ferocity and love of adventure. |
 | | Merry knew he was not an intruder, and for the moment, he was no Brandybuck either, but was just Merry, sitting on the floor of Uncle Paladin’s study, in front of the fire as he had a hundred times before. |
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