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I know what you would say, and it would seem like wisdom, but for the warning in my heart.
— Frodo · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker grants that the listener's advice sounds wise and would normally be persuasive. Yet something within them, an inner warning, tells them otherwise. They trust that instinct over reasonable-sounding counsel, acknowledging the argument's appeal while declining to follow it.
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