This Mortal Portal
This Mortal Portal
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LOTR Doomscrolling

Vic King

by Vic King

Doomscrolling, Lord of the Rings style:

“The knowledge which he obtained was, doubtless, often of service to him; yet … [it] fed the despair of his heart until it overthrew his mind.”

-- Tolkien, describing Denethor with the palantiri

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