This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too s…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.951, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.951, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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