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"Well, I don't want to see them," [Sam] said. "Never again! Can't we get on and get away?"
"Yes, yes," said Gollum. " But slowly, very slowly, Very carefully! Or hobbits go down to join the Dead ones and light little candles."

"Then he came back and slowly put out a trembling hand, very cautiously he touched Frodo's knee--but almost the touch was a caress. For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they would have thought that they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing."

"The others too now turned their eyes eastward. Over the sundering leagues of land, far away they gazed to the edge of sight, and hope and fear bore their thoughts still on, beyond dark mountains to the land of Shadow. Where now was the Ring-bearer? How thin indeed was the thread upon which doom still hung!"

Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings. Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Eowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood.

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