And their Lord called unto them: "Did I not forbid you that tree, and tell you that Satan was an avowed enemy unto you? We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom | May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out |
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I do not ask for such a gift | But the Red Ring remained hidden until the end, and none save Elrond and Galadriel and Cirdan knew to whom it had been committed |
But tell me, what would you do with such a gift? They are eager to see you in distress.
9do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own people; they do not fall short of inflicting loss upon you; they love what distresses you; vehement hatred has already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater still; indeed, We have made the communications clear to you, if you will understand | Name it, I bid you! Yet after the fall of Sauron their power was ever at work, and where they abode there mirth also dwelt and all things were unstained by the griefs of time |
We have certainly made the signs clear for you, should you exercise your reason.
Do not take your confidants from others than yourselves; they will spare nothing to ruin you | I do not foretell, for all foretelling is now vain: on the one hand lies darkness, and on the other only hope |
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And when they tasted of the tree their shame was manifest to them and they began to hide by heaping on themselves some of the leaves of the Garden | For you I have prepared this |
Clear is the water of your well; White is the star in your white hand; Unmarred,unstained is leaf and land In Dwimordene,in Lorien More fair than thoughts of Mortal Men.