I find it poignant and comforting that the kettle, silent since Beorn’s house, returns in Chapter 19, the healing chapter.

• 01.025 and put on the kettle,
• 02.029 with the kettle just beginning to sing!”
• 03.004 and of the kettle singing.
• 05.042 The answer’s not a kettle boiling over,
• 07.001 and put his kettle on –
• 19.039 and the sound of the kettle on his hearth