Sometimes I think, "All the great questions have been asked and debated." And then someone comes along and asks something new. Or, if it's not new, they ask an old question in a fresh way. One of the latest examples I've run across is "Who slashed the bolsters?" That is, in the chapter "A Knife in the Dark", someone breaks into the Prancing Pony and slashes the bolsters that have been made up look like Frodo's party of Hobbits. Naturally, more than one answer has been provided to the question. There is an old story circulating in fandom about how...