"Why, why do the fools fly?" said Denethor. "Better to burn sooner than late, for burn we must. Go back to your bonfire! And I? I will go now to my pyre. To my pyre! No tomb for Denethor and Faramir. No tomb! No long slow sleep of death embalmed. We shall burn like heathen kings before ever a ship sailed hither from the West.
The West has failed. Go back and burn!"
Denethor II, Steward of Gondor, on the fate of Minas Tirith and Gondor. From J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings, Book Five, 'The Siege of Gondor.'
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