stoneofthehapless:Password Into Moria; art by Ted Nasmith`The answer to your first question, Boromir
stoneofthehapless:Password Into Moria; art by Ted Nasmith`The answer to your first question, Boromir,’ said the wizard, `is that I do not know the word yet. But we shall soon see. And,’ he added, with a glint in his eyes under their bristling brows, ‘you may ask what is the use of my deeds when they are proved useless. As for your other question: do you doubt my tale? Or have you no wits left? I did not enter this way. I came from the East.’…`I once knew every spell in all the tongues of Elves or Men or Orcs that was ever used for such a purpose. I can still remember ten score of them without searching in my mind. But only a few trials, I think, will be needed; and I shall not have to call on Gimli for words of the secret dwarf tongue that they teach to none. The opening words were Elvish, like the writing on the arch: that seems certain.’…Again Gandalf approached the wall, and lifting up his arms he spoke in tones of command and rising wrath. Edro, edro! he cried, and struck the rock with his staff. Open, open! he shouted, and followed it with the same command in every language that had ever been spoken in the West of Middle-earth. Then he threw his staff on the ground, and sat down in silence.— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, “A Journey in the Dark” -- source link
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