'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?' 'So the minstrels say,' said รomer. 'Then let us defend it, and hope!' said Aragorn.
J. R. R. TolkienIf this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.
J. R. R. TolkienWe are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.
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