My favorite characters above all are the Elves, their beauty, wisdom, skill, artisanship. Secondly I love the Hobbits for their homeliness, their astounding hardiness and resistance to evil, their humble pluck.
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Then came there from the south of the city the people of the Fountain, and Ecthelion was their lord, and silver and diamonds were their delight; and swords very long and bright and pale did they wield . . .
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