'Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. And why, sir, 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?'



'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. 'But the people in them come and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.'

~ The Two Towers, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol

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