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Characters: Samwise Gamgee, inhabitants of Hobbiton.
"I think I am getting the hang of this." - Sam muttered whilst using his frying pan to knock out yet another orc.
Meanwhile at the Shire.
"I'm telling you Mrs. Longfoot, the quality of my pots and pans are enough to make the elves jealous! Look at these thick bottoms and the sturdy handles! They won't cover with grease anytime soon. Sure, they are slightly heavy, but they won't burn the food so easily." - A small portly hobbit holding two saucepans was talking to a tiny female hobbit with a disapproving frown on her pudgy face.
"Why, the other day Mistress Took was telling me that she won't cook her mushroom soup unless it is made in one of my saucepans and everyone in Hobbiton knows the quality of her mushroom soup. I am not saying that your soup is worse hers than by any means…" - Mrs. Longfoot had now changed her expression from a frown to one of quiet speculation.
The salesman took that as good sign and leaning slightly towards the prospective customer whispered: "Just between you and I, her soup only became famous once she bought my pans" Satisfied with desired effect of widening eyes of his future customer he brought in his trump card. "Bilbo Baggins himself used my pots, isn't so Gapher?"
A dignified looking hobbit took his lengthy pipe out of his mouth and sagely nodded his assent with the salesman's words. The patriarch of the Gamgee family, commonly known as Gapher, a long-time employee of Bilbo Baggins calmly remarked: "'Tis so Mr Stoektower. I remember when I helped Mr. Bilbo to move back into Bag End and helped him carry the pots and pans he bought from you. You just started marking them with a triangle crossed by a line on their bottoms."
"The mark of my craftsmanship" - Mr. Stoektower added by way of explanation and turned one of the pans upside down to confirm. His smile has gotten broader when the hobbit wife before him reached for her money pouch.
In the mines of Moria.
After the battle with surface creatures, the orcs were performing their last rites on their fallen tribe members - stripping any valuables of their corpses. Strangely enough, they avoided any corpses that were killed by the wizard. Those bodies were easily recognised by a mark of a triangle with a crossed line embedded on their foreheads.