"Excuse me, do you know the street number for Bag End?"

"Bag End has a street address?"

"It has to have one, doesn't it? There's mail delivered in the Shire, isn't there?"

"Well, I always imagined the Shire to be very British and have all of the amenities you'd expect in a British pastoral setting. Mail does seem like one of them."

"So, we're agreed that there is an address. But what is it?"

"I imagine the mail would be addressed to Master Bilbo Baggins, Bag End, Bagshot Row, The Shire."

"But that was before the Ring War. Now it's called New Row."

"Regardless; the mail would be addressed to Master Frodo Baggins, Bag End, New Row, The Shire."

"But you left out the street number."

"It doesn't have a street number! There's only one Bag End and one Frodo!"

"I knew it once. It had something to do with that big birthday party for Bilbo."

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