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And the blood will dry underneath my nails
and the wind will rise up to fill my sails.
Peter Jackson movies parallel || Thorin and Isildur
↮ ”It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, son of the king, took up his father’s sword. Sauron, enemy of the free peoples of Middle-Earth, had been defeated.”
↮ ”We were leaderless, defeat and death were upon us. That is when I saw him; the young dwarf prince facing down the Pale Orc. He stood alone against this terrible foe, his armour rent, wielding nothing but an oaken branch as a shield… Azog the Defiler learned that day that the line of Durin would not be so easily broken.”