J. R. R. Tolkien quote: These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not ...

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~

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