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A screenshot of text, reading: Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall! These staves he spoke, yet he laughed as he said them. For once more lust of battle was on him; and he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people. And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them. (King, ?) In some ways, Éomer is Denethor's foil. While Denethor's reaction to the black ships is to slay himself, Éomer is on the battlefield. He defies his enemies even as he prepares to be overwhelmed. His reward is that he quickly realizes that the ships belong to Aragorn who brings critical reinforcements. Éomer achieves victory by recommitting himself to action despite his despair.

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A screenshot of text, reading: Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall! These staves he spoke, yet he laughed as he said them. For once more lust of battle was on him; and he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people. And lo! even as he laughed at despair he looked out again on the black ships, and he lifted up his sword to defy them. (King, ?) In some ways, Éomer is Denethor's foil. While Denethor's reaction to the black ships is to slay himself, Éomer is on the battlefield. He defies his enemies even as he prepares to be overwhelmed. His reward is that he quickly realizes that the ships belong to Aragorn who brings critical reinforcements. Éomer achieves victory by recommitting himself to action despite his despair.
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Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 05:03:38 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book
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Somehow I've reached 30,000 words in my exploration of #TheLordOfTheRings and its lessons for the #ClimateCrisis.
I spend a big portion of the book looking what characters do when they come to despair. Word 30,000 came as I was exploring Éomer's defiance of the black fleet during the battle for Minas Tirith.
We may not feel hopeful about the coming years, but even so, we have to keep going.

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