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... it was but a cloud-wall, and beyond that again a yet deeper gloom. But even as he looked it seemed to his eyes that the gloom was growing and gathering very slowly, slowly rising to smother the regions of the sun.
... Dust hung in the air, fof the wind had died and the evening was heavy. Already the closing hour was drawning nigh, and the red sun had gone behind Mindolluin. Shadow came down on the City (c) The LotR, The Return of the King

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