“Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord.”
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J.R.R. Tolkien,
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King