I think Tolkien wrote Denethor as savvier and wiser [in the ways of the world] than the qoute above gives him credit for.<P>HE may have indeed thought it but he would not express it so. Indeed he does express himself differently when Faramir asks him if he has done ill upon returning on the eve of the Battle of Pellenor Fields.
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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