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High King Ithilion wrote: Bandits should be far rarer tbh. There's little mention of them at any point in the books, so they obviously weren't common.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lome) 02:07, February 23, 2017 (UTC)

It's easy to assume that Bilbo ran into them on the way back as he had many adventures