• egrets@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a hen! Not dark, but round and orange as the dawn sun! Loud as the sea! Scratching and pecking even to the foundations of the earth! All shall love me, and despair!

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      25 days ago

      Scratching and pecking even to the foundations of the earth

      “But also it was her destruction: For she pecked too greedily and too deep…”

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        2 days ago

        There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the chickens, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.