#rainbow cleft

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The Rainbow Cleft by Alan Lee

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Thence a dark tunnel led beneath the mountains, and issued into Cirith Ninniach, the Rainbow Cleft, through which a turbulent water ran towards the western sea. Thus it was that Tuor's flight from Hithlum was marked by neither Man nor Orc, and no knowledge of it came to the ears of Morgoth. ~ The Silmarillion, Chapter 23 (“Cirith Ninniach, the Rainbow Cleft,” Ted Nasmith)