Melkor's Deception

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Ever Melkor found some ears that would heed him, and some tongues that would enlarge what they had heard; and his lies passed from friend to friend, as secrets of which the knowledge proves the teller wise. Bitterly did the Noldor atone for the folly of their open ears in the days that followed after. When he saw that many leaned towards him, Melkor would often walk among them, and amid his fair words others were woven, so subtly that many who heard them believed in recollection that they arose from their own thought.

The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
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И Мелькор всегда находил уши, что внимали ему, и языки, что повторяли услышанное; и ложь его переходила от друга к другу, как тайна, знание которой доказывало мудрость говорившего. Жестоко поплатились нолдор в грядущие дни за глупость и доверчивость.