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Elessar returns.

What is it about Elf Queens that turns everyone into simpletons?

Leaving Lothlórien

‘He is dead then,’ said Frodo. ‘I feared it was so.’ Gimli cast his hood over his face.

End of book one.

Tom Bombadil and the Barrows are really just filler. He should have been cut. Keep the Old Willow or the Barrow, but get rid of the deus ex machina.