[Tongue-in-cheek]"rings of smoke" is an obvious reference to Gandalf!
And "our shadows taller than our soul" comes from one of Tolkien's 'minor' works, Smith of Wootton Major, in which Smith's shadow is giant-sized after he comes back from Faery.[/Tongue-in-cheek]
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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