The staff of Gandalf the White.
Because who wouldn't want to be a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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