Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold …

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin! ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Lord of the Rings: One Volume, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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