I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the m…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Lord of the Rings: One Volume, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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