Overheard at the Port of Harlond when the Umbrian tried to unload his cargo under the new tax laws:
Oo! What’s da southern fees forr?
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‘Many are the strange chances of the world,’ said Mithrandir, ‘and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.’
– Gandalf in: The Silmarillion, 'Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age'
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