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  "text": "The Road goes ever on and on\n\nDown from the door where it began.\n\nNow far ahead the Road has gone,\n\nAnd I must follow, if I can,\n\nPursuing it with eager feet,\n\nUntil it joins some larger way\n\nWhere many paths and errands meet.\n\nAnd whither then? I cannot say.",
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      "text": "We must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril – to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire.",
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