"But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning."

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J.R.R. Tolkien was an English writer, philologist, and scholar best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon and later English language and literature at Oxford. His legendarium became foundational to modern epic fantasy.

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