We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least but one thing is not said that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.
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