And surely it did be as that I was come home, and to have set my
feet again upon familiar Lands; and this to bring to you how far
off I did seem to have gone; and now to be come again to a Known
Place.
And we went upward upon the Road, until that we did truly have
topt the Slope, and at last to look out over all the wonder and
mystery of that Land. And I never to be rid of the utter gladness
of knowing that I was come there again, after so strange a journey,
and that Mine Own had I brought with me, out of all the unknown
world. Yet, truly, I also never to have forgetting that this
familiar Land of Strangeness did be the last test and the greatest
dreadfulness of our journey; and anxiousness did hang upon me; for
I now to have to take the preciousness of Mine Own among and beyon
