"This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils -- that has be...

What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the frying pan and into the fire!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~












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