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Up, up he went. ... At last, weary and feeling finally defeated...
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This is the correct "ascent". However, it is not the correct section of text. The other passages are irrelevant. As you say, it kinda falls apart and you can't make the other lines work in that setting.
Take this info and pair it with Urwen's second-to-last post, that will give you the text you need.
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Final thought: back in*The Stairs of Cirith Ungol, Sam directly says that "we're in the same tale still"; which could be the source of the "taking up the tale" line.
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Though I am not referencing this line, I am definitely referencing this concept, though illustrated differently. Actually, doing a bit of reading for this riddle made me think of how much more prevalent this theme is in LOTR in more subtle ways, though only voiced that time by Sam.