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"
So
passed the sword of the barrow-downs, work of Westernesse. But glad
would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago in the
North-kingdom, when the Dunedain were young, and chief among their foes
was the dread realm of Angmar, and its sorcerer king, No other blade,
not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound
so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that held his
unseen sinews to his will. "
from
'The Return of the King' by J.R.R. Tolkien
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