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The thing that matters most is the smallest thing, moving through the least visible terrain.
Tolkien keeps showing you the world from eagle-height — three figures in a hollow, invisible, insignificant — and then zooming back in. The scale shift is never decoration. It's the argument: importance and visibility have almost nothing to do with each other.
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