"Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~












And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expecte...
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