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Arise, arise, Raiders of Théoden
Fell deeds awake: fire and overleverage!
C-suites shall be shaken, shares shall be tendered,
A sword-day, a red day, ere the market closes!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

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>The king was silent. ‘Ents!’ he said at length. ‘Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of the trees, I think. I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of strange places, and walk visible under the Sun.’

>‘You should be glad, Théoden King,’ said Gandalf. ‘For not only the little life of Men is now endangered, but the life also of those things which you have deemed the matter of legend. You are not without allies, even if you know them not.’

>‘Yet also I should be sad,’ said Théoden. ‘For however the fortune of war shall go, may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth?’

‘>It may,’ said Gandalf. ‘The evil of Sauron cannot be wholly cured, nor made as if it had not been. But to such days we are doomed. Let us now go on with the journey we have begun!’

I reread LOTR recently, and it's only as an adult that I'm struck by how sad the book is. So much that people find memorable about LOTR is, essentially, the last gasp of magic and wonder in Middle-Earth. The Elves and the Ents are passing forever out of the world, as is the glory of Numenor and the grandeur of the Dwarves.

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Arise, arise, Raiders of Théoden
Fell deeds awake: fire and overleverage!
C-suites shall be shaken, shares shall be tendered,
A sword-day, a red day, ere the market closes!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

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