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Random #LOTR fact: When Gandalf says in "The Houses of Healing" that "...Denethor has departed, and his house is in ashes", what he probably means is "his body is in ashes." Minas Tirith has not, after all, literally been burnt down.
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A similar usage is in Denethor's farewell to Pippin in the First Edition: in current editions Denethor says of Faramir "The house of his spirit crumbles", but before the 1966 Second Edition he said simply "His house crumbles". Both passages are in Book V, largely written in 1946.
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