16. “I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts amd our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of MInas Tirith. And that we called the life of men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to choldren, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of strange places, and walk...