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High in the White Tower, Lord Denethor,
Chief Steward of Gondor...
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...his mind broken
as his city crumbled about him...
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...had succumbed
to an eerie fire of the brain...
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...and, in his madness,
ordered his own execution.
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-You must stop him!
-His word is law!
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I'll find Gandalf!
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The Hobbit, Pippin, who had proved
a most valuable assistant for me...
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...rushed to the battlement.
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Where l, Gandalf...
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...and the Gondor generals searched
the distance in vain...
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...for a sign of our rescuers.
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For we awaited Theoden...
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...a valuable ally,
lord of the friendly nation of Rohan...
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...for whom we had dispatched
Pippin's Hobbit friend, little Merry...
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...to inform him of our perilous condition
and to beseech his aid.
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For we wondered, would he
and his armies come to our rescue?
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Forward! To Minas-Tirith!
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Forward!
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For only Theoden could save our city...
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...and make it safe
for the return of Aragorn.
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But we feared he would come too late.
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-What? Denethor?
-He's gone loony, I tell you!
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Come quickly.
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You cannot do this!
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Soon all shall be burned.
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The West has failed.
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It shall go up in a great fire...
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...and all shall be ended.
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Ash and smoke blown away on the wind.