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- Beloved of the sylvan kin
- Guarded treasures he holds well
- Keeping them from darken spell
- Content to bide his days
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- Delighting in the simple ways
- Your neverending dreams in summer
- Carefree laughing, ceaseless wonder
- This gift will be your bane
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- Thrown together--tall one,halfling
- Two sides of the same bright coin
- In a quest compelled to join
- Their weaknesses and strengths
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- Bound once, twice, and yet again
- From fear comes love and trust and faith
- To vanquish spell of ring and wraith
- Cold within their breasts
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- The fated spiral draws them in
- One’s destined goal: a crown to gain
- In payment’s tithed the other’s pain
- The blessing and the curse
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- He draws his sword against the Dark
- Protector, comrade, standing tall
- Hands to hold you when you fall
- A rock against your back
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- Yet even he cannot prevent
- The doubts that surface in your mind
- Your heartfelt cry as evil’s twined
- In knots about your soul
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- Solitude must be your cloak
- Or it will take them, one by one
- To madness all they will succomb
- Surrender them or fail!
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- His fate has yours unwitting set:
- No mortal heart can in the end
- Endure black flame, remain your friend
- "Protect me from yourself!"
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- He kneels and clasps your cold, small hands
- "I would have followed you through fire
- "Forsaking all my own desire
- "But I must let you go."
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- Desperately you plead of him:
- "Take care of them, they must not know
- "The darkling paths where I must go
- "Look after them, my brother."
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- The Ring, it whispers in their palms
- Pledges glory and despair
- Burns the hobbit’s heart so fair
- Rends Fellowship to shreds
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- King shall return--but at what cost!
- The teind is paid in blood and tears
- The price too high, this one so dear
- By fiery wheel consumed
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- Shadow-crowned, the Prince of
Men
- Striding through an exile’s
dream
- Nothing gained ‘til now,
- It seems:
- His life... his love... the past
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- Shadow-blinded, Halfling Prince
- Failure’s not a choice to
make
- Too long along the road
- Forsake:
- Your life... your love... the
future
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