I never thought of that before! We’ve got — you’ve…

I never thought of that before! We’ve got — you’ve got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we’re in the same tale still! It’s going on. Don’t the great tales never end?

Book IV, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol

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