Today's Date in the Shire 13 Foreyule T.A. 3018: The Company of the Ring stays in Rivendell preparing for the journey ahead.

	Middle-Earth Quotes "You cannot enter here. Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!" Gandalf

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The Undefinable Shadowland A Study of the Complex Question of Dualism in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Leif Jacobsen In memory of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, to whom I owe so much The Road ever goes on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow if I can Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction The Neutrals The Fallen Sméagol/Gollum Conclusion Works Cited Acknowledgements

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