Dali The Death of Clorinda

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he merely continues, until at last every minute is a weariness. And if he often uses the Ring to make himself invisible, he fades: he becomes in the end invisible permanently, and walks in the twilight under the eye of the dark power that rules the Rings. Yes, sooner or later - later, if he is strong or well-meaning to begin with, but neither strength nor good purpose will last - sooner or later the dark power will devour him.’‘How same size or weight; it shrank or expanded in an odd way, and might suddenly slip off a finger where it had been tight.’‘Yes, he warned me of that in his last letter,’ said Frodo, ‘so I have always kept it on its chain.’‘Very wise,’ said Gandalf. ‘But as for his long , Bilbo never connected it with the ring at all. He took all the credit for that to himself, and he was very proud of it. Though he was getting restless and uneasy. Thin and stretched he said. A sign that the ring was getting control.’terrifying!’ said Frodo. There was another long silence. The sound of Sam Gamgee cutting the lawn came in from the .‘How long have you known this?’ asked Frodo at length. ‘And how much did Bilbo know?’‘Bilbo knew no more than he told you, I am sure,’ said Gandalf. ‘He would certainly never have passed on to you anything that he thought would be a danger, even though I promised to look after you. He thought the ring was very beautiful, and very useful at need; and if anything was wrong or queer, it was himself. He said that it was “growing on his mind”, and he was always worrying about it; but he did not suspect that the ring itself was to blame. Though he had found out that the thing needed looking after; it did not seem always of the