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... had a vision as it were of a great expanse of years behind them, like a vast shadowy plain over which there strode shapes of Men, tall and grim with bright swords, and last came one with a star on his brow.
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I think that was the line that affected me the most, since it was a foreshadowing of Aragorn and his kin. I always remembered that vision of tall, grim Men with bright swords, and one with a star on his brow, and when I met Aragorn, I just knew that this was the one.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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