Lord of the Rings meets Hamlet.
Aragorn: "If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for
thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as
snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a
nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs
marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough
what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go,
and quickly too. Farewell."
Eowyn: "O Valar, restore him!"
Aragorn: "I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; Eru
has given you one face, and you make yourselves
another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and
nick-name Eru's creatures, and make your wantonness
your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath
made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages:
those that are married already, all but one, shall
live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a
nunnery, go."
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Fenris Wolf: WW LXXX.
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