#Written by Forten
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#title:Of Cardolan
#author:Anborn
#types:rivendell,bree,eriador,gondor,lindon
#reward
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Cardolan was a realm of yore,
a scion of old Númenor.
From hapless years it rose, and yet
it left our joy in darker debt;
first quarrel, and her bitter birth,
then pestilence and barren earth,
and last of all, the Witch-king came -
he cursed her hills, he cursed her name.
The Barrow-downs we call them now:
fell remnants of a conquered vow.