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I haven't been able to come up with anything sensible for some time, all the time the word "faithful" made me think of Númenoreans, but actually, now after reading G55's guess, I thought of Gollum.
Faithful I, yet I my lord betrayed - good Sméagol always helps the Master, but is a little treacherous, preciouss
To serve the one who wielded shadow; - Sauron or maybe even Shelob, weaving her webs of shadow
Shadow I helped defeat. - yet in fact destroyed the Ring
Patient was I, but rash move I made. - managed to wait for his Ring for quite long, but then made a rash move - it was definitely a rash move to step where there was no ground on the edge of the crater anyway
Madness tore me; - I think nobody of us doubts that he was mad, and it even tore him in two parts, right, PJ...
now at last I
Know what it is to sleep. - sleeping in a rather warm bed...
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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