Yet after the fall of Sauron their power was ever at work, and where they abode there mirth also dwelt and all things were unstained by the griefs of time | Stronger than the foundations of the earth |
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Do not take your confidants from others than yourselves; they will spare nothing to ruin you |
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18They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse | Clear is the water of your well; White is the star in your white hand; Unmarred,unstained is leaf and land In Dwimordene,in Lorien More fair than thoughts of Mortal Men |
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And so indeed it has since befallen: the One and the Seven and the Nine are destroyed; and the Three have passed away, and with them the Third Age is ended, and the Tales of the Eldar in Middle-earth draw to then-close | In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen |
So when they tasted of the tree, their nakedness became exposed to them, and they began to stitch over themselves with the leaves of paradise.
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