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The King of the Golden Hall

So I imagined I'm a Gondorian artist ordered to come to Rohan and paint a portrait of King Theoden and his steed Snowmane in the halls of Meduseld. 😄

'Faithful servant yet master's bane
Lightfoot's foal, swift Snowmane'
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

'Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning'
- J. R. R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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