The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

‘Dead?’ he said. ‘Do you mean that he is dead, and that you knew it? You have been trying to trap me in words, playing with me? Or are you now trying to snare me with a falsehood?’ ‘I would not snare even an orc with a falsehood,’ said Faramir.