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A king does not expend his substance to enslave men, but by his conduct and example makes them free.
Steven Pressfield • Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin’s sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.
J.R.R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings
The ‘Elves’ are ‘immortal’, at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death.
Christopher Tolkien • The Silmarillion
He sprang forward with a yell, and seized his master’s sword in his left hand. Then he charged. No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.
J.R.R. Tolkien • The Lord of the Rings
animal’s, raw, pitiful, incoherent. Not much of a hero, am I? thought Tian. I wish I were truly brave. You’re an ordinary man who was given an extraordinary choice, said the Monkey King.
Ken Liu • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Wishsong of Shannara (The Shannara Chronicles) (The Sword of Shannara Book 3)
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