"There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs."

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These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

— J. R. R. Tolkien