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Arwen

What Grace is given me, let it pass to him. Let him be spared. Save him.

— The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring • 2001

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker asks for whatever grace they receive to pass to someone else. The repeated requests that he be spared and saved make his welfare the focus. It is a plea to give another person the benefit of that favor.

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