I know this is off topic and I apologize, but I always loved the way this is written. Using phrases like, "we have heard tell" and "it is said" implies that we don't know for sure. It is briliant the way Tolkien leaves this ambiguous, like it is real history. Marvelous.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
H.C.
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"Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs."
-Denethor
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