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Then suddenly he beheld his sister Éowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart; and then his face went deathly white, and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while.
‘Éowyn, Éowyn!’ he cried at last. 'Éowyn, how come you here? What madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!’
Fan Challenge: Three Quotes [2/3]
“This was the last stage before the battle. It did not seem likely to him that many of them would survive it. But he thought of Pippin and the flames in Minas Tirith, and thrust down his own dread.”
Fan Challenge: Four of Seven Heartbreaking Scenes
“ ‘Are you going to bury me?’ said Merry.
‘No, indeed!’ said Pippin, trying to sound cheerful, though his heart was wrung with fear and pity. 'No, we are going to the Houses of Healing.’ “