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          PROLOGUE

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          The Healer's name was Fords Deep Waters.

           Because he was a soul, by nature he was all things good: compassionate, patient, honest, virtuous, and
    full of love. Anxiety was an unusual emotion for Fords Deep Waters.

          Irritation was even rarer. However, because Fords Deep Waters lived inside a human body, irritation
    was sometimes inescapable.

           As the whispers of the Healing students buzzed in the far corner of the operating room, his lips pressed
    together into a tight line. The expression felt out of place on a mouth more often given to smiling.

The Fellowship of the Ring

    The Fellowship of the RingJ. R. R. Tolkien

          FOREWORD

          This tale grew in the telling, until it became a history of the Great War of the Ring and included many glimpses of the yet more ancient history that preceded it. It was begun soon after The Hobbit was written and before its publication in 1937; but I did not go on with this sequel, for I wished first to complete and set in order the mythology and legends of the Elder Days, which had then been taking shape for some years. I desired to do this for my own satisfaction, and I had little hope that other people would be interested in this work, especially since it was primarily linguistic in inspiration and was begun in order to provide the necessary background of history for Elvish tongues. When those whose advice and opinion I sought corrected little hope to no hope, I went back to the sequel, encouraged by requests from readers for more information concerning hobbits and their adventures. But the story was drawn irresistibly towards the older world, and became an account, as it were, of its end and passing away before its beginning and middle had been told. The process had begun in the writing of The Hobbit, in which there were already some references to the older matter: Elrond, Gondolin, the High-elves, and the orcs, as well as glimpses that had arisen unbidden of things higher or deeper or darker than its surface: Durin, Moria, Gandalf, the Necromancer, the Ring. The discovery of the significance of these glimpses and of their relation to the ancient

 

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