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Re: Most 'powerful' lines of Ea....
Maybe it's a very obvious passage, but I have always been most moved by the very simple efforts of Sam to retain hope to the bitter end ... and beyond. To make his master's work possible. When it is done, Sam continued to hope and to speak, "to keep fear away until the very last."
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Quote:<hr> "What a tale we have been in, Mr. Frodo, haven't we? I wish I could hear it told! Do you think they'll say:
Now comes the story of Nine-fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom? And then everyone will hush, like we did, when in Rivendell they told us the tale of Beren One-hand and the Great Jewel. I wish I could hear it! And I wonder how it will go on after our part."
... two small dark figures, forlorn, hand in hand upon a little hill, while the world shook under them, and gasped, and rivers of fire drew near. And even as he espied them and came swooping down, he saw them fall, worn out, or choked with fumes and heat, or stricken down by despair at last, hiding their eyes from death.<hr></blockquote>
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Edited by <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000201>galpsi</A> at: 7/19/00 2:43:37 pm