But what is noteworthy in this connection is that, at the entrance to the tree, Ivor starts a fire "cuius calore fumique uapore inclusos pene extinxit." Saxo says that Frothi "Vbi dum clausus delitescit, uapore et fumo strangulatus interiit." Here is the idea of concealment again, but particularly noteworthy is the suffocation by "uapore et fumo," the same words that are used in Meriadoc.
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