"A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be sp...

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~












You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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