Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world? ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.930, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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