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 Glorfindel's cry to his horse

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Noro lim, noro lim, Asfaloth!

Run fast, run fast, Asfaloth!


The meaning of that sentence is inferred after the context and other writings of Tolkien about his invented languages.



Quotations of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Édouard Kloczko, Christopher Gilson, Patrick Wynne, Rhona Beare, Thomas Alan Shippey, Charles Kennedy, Elaine Treharne, André Crépin, Régis Boyer, François-Xavier Dillmann, Gabriel Rebourcet, Keith Bosley, Pierre-Yves Lambert, Gwyn Jones, Thomas Jones are under the copyright of their publishers.


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