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Dante Alighieri:

"Before I free myself from this abyss, Master Frodo,
Sam said when he had stood up straight,
"tell me enough I see I don't mistake;
where is the ring? And how is Sauron so placed
head downward? Tell me, too, how has the sun
in so few hours gone from night to morning?"
And he to me: "You still believe you are
north of center Middle Earth, where I met the gaze
of the unblinking eye who pierces through the world.
And you were there as long as I descended;
but when I turned, that's when you passed the point
to which, from every, part, the rings weight from me is drawn."
There is a place beyond, the limit of
that sea, its farthest point from Sauron,
a place one cannot see: it is discovered
by ship. There is a sounding sea that flows
along the hollow of a rock, and the slope is easy.
So Gandalf and Frodo came upon that hidden road
to make their way back into the bright world
with no care for any rest. They sailed -
Gandalf first, Frodo following - until he saw
through a round opening, some of those things
of beauty the Deathless Lands bear. It was from there
that they emerged, to see - once more - the stars.