Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

I never noticed that before, but yer the chain is clearly snapped.

Which now makes the version on wiki plausible, that the priest was trying to kill the Devil by jumping into the water and sacrificing himself, but as the chain has snapped it was all in vain.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.