Thank you, Sam, he said in a cracked whisper. How far is there to go? …

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Thank you, Sam, he said in a cracked whisper. How far is there to go? I don't know, said Sam, because I don't know where we're going. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.920, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Thank you, Sam, he said in a cracked whisper. How far is there to go? I don't know, said Sam, because I don't know where we're going. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.920, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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