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"We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda."
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In that time the fleets of the Númenóreans darkened the sea upon the west of the land, and they were like an archipelago of a thousand isles; their masts were as a forest upon the mountains, and their sails like a brooding cloud; and their banners were golden and black. And all things waited upon the word of Ar-Pharazôn the King; and Sauron withdrew into the inmost circle of the Temple, and men brought him victims to be burned. ”The Lords of the West have plotted against us”, the King spoke, “but the next blow shall be ours!”

But Ilúvatar showed forth his power, and he changed the fashion of the world; and a great chasm opened in the sea between Númenor and the Deathless Lands. And the Land of Númenor was utterly destroyed, and its foundations were overturned, and it fell and went down into the darkness, with all its children and its wives and gardens and towers. And last of all Tar-Míriel the Queen was swept into the ocean, the last of the prideful of Númenor.

@темы: J.R.R. Tolkien