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Hear you now...
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...a story of good against evil.
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An epoch that has its beginningat an ending...
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...and ends at a beginning.
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Listen, as we speak of the fallof a lord of darkness...
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...and the return of a king of light.
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Concern yourselveswith armies and wizards...
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...phantoms and emperors...
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...cloud-capped towersand bloodied fields of horrendous carnage.
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Consider no less...
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...than the cataclysmic transformation...
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...of that ancient worldof wonder and magic...
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...to the world we know now, of Man.
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What mighty lord, you may ask,is hero enough...
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...to evoke such cosmic metamorphosis?
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Why, no lord at all,but the littlest of fellows...
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...Frodo the Hobbit...
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...and his faithful squire, Samwise.
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Who, beginning at the ending,now approach Rivendell...
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...the Elvish home of Elrond...
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...there to help celebratethe 129th birthday...
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...of Frodo's aged kin...
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...Bilbo Baggins,renowned tormentor of dragons.
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Bless my soul!You're a match for Smaug himself.
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All of us, Frodo and Samwise...
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...their Hobbit companions,Merry and Pippin...
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...EIrond the Elf-Lord, and l, Gandalf...
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...wished Bilbo only the best.
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