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Decipher the following message (it was enciphered with a column-scrambled matrixtransposition cipher - the letters are again in groups of five).

NNRTA NNFTO IONEL IEKSD MRTLE LRTNE EGRTA NTAEI HXOIO
EMOIO DMRTI HLDHR SNEEG UHLEG IHNNB GMAND NBTX

Answer:

The scrambed matrix is:

NROE
NTIG
RLOU
TEEH
ALML
NROE
NTIG
FNOI
TEDH
OEMN
IGRN
ORTB
NTIG
EAHM
LNLA
ITDN
EAHD
KERN
SISB
DHNT
MXEX


The unscrambed matrix is:

ONER
INGT
ORUL
ETHE
MALL
ONER
INGT
OFIN
DTHE
MONE
RING
TOBR
INGT
HEMA
LLAN
DINT
HEDA
RKNE
SSBI
NDTH
EMXX


The message is "one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them," from The Lord of the Rings.