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'Where first' you say? A fool's question!
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That's Tídwald; however, he's quoting Torhthelm, who said:
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Where first do we make for? Have we far to go?
The night is passing, and I'm near finished...
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both in
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son. Appropriately, it's midnight as I write this...
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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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