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- The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what may be preserved.6.5 — Book 6 Chapter 5 — The Steward and the King (87% in)
- Though the Stewards deemed that it was a secret kept only by themselves, long ago I guessed that here in the White Tower, one at least of the Seven Seeing Stones was preserved.5.7 — Book 5 Chapter 7 — The Pyre of Denethor (89% in)
- Even the orc-rags that you bore in the black land; Frodo, shall be preserved.6.4 — Book 6 Chapter 4 — The Field of Cormallen (49% in)
- ...and its gates were wrought of mithril and steel, and its streets were paved with white marble; and the Folk of the Mountain laboured in it, and the Folk of the Wood rejoiced to come there; and all was healed and made good, and the houses were filled with men and women and the laughter of children, and no window was blind nor any courtyard empty; and after the ending of the Third Age of the world into the new age it preserved the memory and the glory of the years that were gone.6.5 — Book 6 Chapter 5 — The Steward and the King (70% in)
- The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what may be preserved.6.5 — Book 6 Chapter 5 — The Steward and the King (87% in)
There are no more uses of "preserve" in The Return of the King.
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