Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

“We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or …”

“Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speakin…”

“We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide h…”

“May the hair on your toes never fall out!”