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Gandalf

Fool of a Took. Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity.

— The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ‧ 2001

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker's scolding escalates from calling someone foolish to a harsh suggestion that their disappearance would remove their stupidity. The exaggeration makes the anger unmistakable. Read as an insult, the line presents an extreme verbal dismissal rather than a measured assessment of the person addressed.

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