Okay, here's a possibility: The new King Aragorn to Beregond:
"For these things, of old, death was the penalty. Now therefore I must pronounce your doom."
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You got it. 
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Woot! Here's a new one:
They are small and they have the courage. Maybe he is my cousin and I believe the Esquire Dark Lord and his black tower initiates everything.
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During the White Council?
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Ioreth to her kinswoman: "Why, cousin, one of them went with only his esquire into the Black Country and fought with the Dark Lord all by himself, and set fire to his Tower, if you can believe it."
That one didn't change that much, did it?
That one didn't change that much, did it?
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Yes, but you missed the first part: "They are small, but they are valiant."
Nevertheless, your turn!
Nevertheless, your turn!
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Oh, duh! The most important part, and virtually unchanged.
I'll come up with a new one once I wipe this egg off my face.
I'll come up with a new one once I wipe this egg off my face.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Need help with that egg? I've got a friend who would be happy to thoroughly and enthusiastically lick your face completely clean:
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"No! to the side of the road does not depend on any unnecessary loss of evidence. Cage VLR name damned the curse still crying! that ship is on fire! "
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Err....
'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude
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Translation Party really is getting political, huh?
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Is it from The Hobbit?
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No, no hobbits anywhere to be seen.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Yes.
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"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Is it related to the burning of the Swan Ships?
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"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."