In The Fellowship of the Ring, hobbits Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee urge the wise and powerful Galadriel to take the Ring of Sauron from them.
“I wish you’d take [the] Ring,” Sam says. “You’d put things to rights. … You’d make some folk pay for their dirty work.”
Galadriel replies, “I would. That is how it would begin. But it would not stop with that,…
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