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Here they have one of the marvels of the Northern World, and what do they say of it? Caves, they say! Caves! Do you know that the caverns of Helm's Deep are vast and beautiful? When the torches are kindled and men walk on the sandy floors under the echoing domes, then, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent. There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, fluted and twisted into dreamlike forms; they spring up from many-coloured floors to meet the glistening pendants of the roof: wings, ropes, curtains fine as frozen clouds; spears, banners, pinnacles of suspended palaces! Still lakes mirror them: a glimmering world looks up from dark pools.