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(Ent's war chant)
"We come, we come with roll of drum:
ta-runda runda runda-rom!
We come, we come with horn and drum:
ta-runa runa runa rom!
To Isengard! Though Isengard be ringed
and barred with doors of stone;
Though Isengard be strong and hard,
as cold as stone and bare as bone,
We go, we go, we go to war;
to hew the stone and break the door;
For bole and bough are burning down,
the furnace roars - we go to war!
To land of gloom with tramp of doom,
with roll of drum, we come, we come:
To Isengard with doom we come:
With doom we come, with doom we come!"
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The Lord of the Rings
Part II. The Two Towers
Quotes from Tolkien's Novel
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| Isengard: Orthanc. |
"In the moonlight, the Ring of Isengard looked like a graveyard of unquiet dead.
For the ground trembled."
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"A strong place and wonderful was Isengard, and long it had been beautiful [...].
But Saruman had slowly shaped it to his shifting purposes, and made it better, as he thought, being deceived - for all
those arts and subtle devices, for which he forsook his former wisdom, and which fondly he imagined were his own, came
but from Mordor; so that what he made was naught, only a little copy, a child's model or a slave's flattery, of that
vast fortress, armoury, prison, furnace of great power, Barad-dûr, the Dark Tower, which suffered no rival, and
laughed at flattery, biding its time, secure in its pride and its immeasurable strength."
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"You do not know your danger, Théoden,' interrupted Gandalf. 'These hobbits
will sit on the edge of a ruin and discuss the pleasures of the table, or the small doings of their fathers, grandfathers,
and great-grandfathers, and remoter cousins to the ninth degree, if you encourage them with undue patience."
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"The three were soon busy with their meal; and the two hobbits, unabashed, set to
a second time. 'We must keep our guest company,' they said.
'You are full of courtesy this morning,' laughed Legolas. 'But maybe, if we had not arrived, you would
already have been keeping one another company again.' "
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" 'Look!' said Pippin. 'Strider the Ranger has come back!'
'He has never been away,' said Aragorn. 'I am Strider and Dúnadan too, and I belong both
to Gondor and the North.' "
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" ' "Gandalf!", I said at last, but my voice was only a whisper. Did he say: "Hullo,
Pippin! This is a pleasant surprise!" No, indeed! He said: "Get up, you tom-fool of a Took! Where, in the name of wonder,
in all this ruin is Treebeard? I want him. Quick!"
'Treebeard heard his voice and came out of the shadows at once; and there was a strange meeting.
I was surprised, because neither of them seemed surprised at all. [...]
' "But Gandalf," I cried, "where have you been? And have you seen the others?"
' "Wherever I have been, I am back," he answered in the genuine Gandalf manner.' "
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