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And Thingol answered: 'What of your quest, and of your vow?'

But Beren said: 'It is fulfilled. Even now a Silmaril is in my hand.'

Then Thingol said: 'Show it to me!'

And Beren put forth his empty left hand, slowly opening its fingers; but it was empty. Then he held up his right arm; and from that hour he named himself Camlost, the Empty-handed.

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I've been trying to fgure this out for months.

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It is an abbreviation for that, but I have a hard time believing that was a shot in the dark guess.

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This is directed at me? If it is, it wasn't a shot in the dark guess. If you write Holy Roman Empire too many times your arms fall off. I got used to reading Holy Roman Empire wherever HRE is.

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