grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Jun 5 2024, 12:22pm
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It's time for a bit more BS!
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Here's a Book Spoiler of a discussion during a chance meeting... for a moment of Tolkien-zen.
From Helm's Deep: The Two Towers ..."Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. 'This is a night as long as years... ...How long will the day tarry?'
... 'Dawn is not far off,' said Gamling, who had now climbed up beside him. 'But dawn will not help us, I fear.'
... 'Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,' said Aragorn.
... 'But these creatures of Isengard, these half-orcs and goblin-men that the foul craft of Saruman has bred, they will not quail at the sun,' said Gamling. 'And neither will the wild men of the hills. Do you not hear their voices?'
... 'I hear them,' said Éomer; 'but they are only the... ...the bellowing of beasts to my ears.'
... 'Yet there are many that cry in the Dunland tongue,' said Gamling. 'I know that tongue... ...once was spoken in many western valleys of the Mark. Hark! They hate us, and they are glad; for our doom seems certain to them. "The king, the king!" they cry. "We will take their king... ...Death to the Strawheads! Death to the robbers of the North!" Such names they have for us. Not in half a thousand years have they forgotten their grievance that the lords of Gondor gave the Mark to Eorl the Young and made alliance with him. That old hatred Saruman has inflamed... ...They will not give way now for dusk or dawn, until Théoden is taken, or they themselves are slain.'
... 'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?'
... 'So the minstrels say,' said Éomer.
... 'Then let us defend it, and hope!' said Aragorn."
We have been there and back again.
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(This post was edited by grammaboodawg on Jun 5 2024, 12:22pm)
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