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"Then Gil-galad and Elendil passed into Mordor and encompassed the stronghold of Sauron;and they laid seige to it for seven years, and suffered grievous losses by fire and by the darts and bolts of the enemy, and Sauron sent many sorties against them. There in the valley of Gorgoroth Anarion son of Elendil was slain,and many others. But at last the seige was so strait that Sauron himself came forth; and he wrestled with Gil-galad and Elendil, and they both were slain..."
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