Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their motherโs elder brother.
J. R. R. TolkienThe eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. "They cannot conquer for ever!" said Frodo.
J. R. R. TolkienTrue education is a kind of never ending story โ a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
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