He stood a moment as a man
who is pierced in the midst of a cry
by an arrow through the heart;
and then his face went deathly white;
and a cold fury rose in him,
so that all speech failed him for a while.
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‘It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange. Elf and Dwarf in company walk in our daily fields; and folk speak with the Lady of the Wood and yet live; and the Sword comes back to war that was broken in the long […]
‘If we speak of poisoned tongues what shall we say of yours, young serpent?’ said Saruman, and the flash of his anger was now plain to see. ‘But come, Éomer, Éomund’s son!’ he went on in his soft voice again. To every man his part. Valour in arms is yours, and you win […]
Eomer said,
‘How is a man to judge what to do in such times?’
‘As he has ever judged,’
said Aragorn.
‘Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear,
nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men.
It is a man’s part to discern them,
as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.’
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