Favorite Quote from Tolkien's Work

[Elfarmari]

If someone else has already started one about favorite lines from the book, please let me know. I personally have way too many favorites. my three favorite are:

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is stong does not wither,
Deep roots are ot reached by the frost.
From the asches a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadowsall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broke,
The crownless again shall be king"

"Where now are the Dunedain, Elessar, Elessar?
Why do thy kinsfolk wander afar?
Near is the hour when the Lost should come forth,
And the Grey Company ride from the North.
But dark is the ath appointed for thee:
The Dead watch the road that leads to the sea."

"Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden!
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rise!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!"

[Bombur]

These are my favorites:

Durin's Song

"The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone
When Durin woke and walked alone

...

In Moria, in Kazad-dum.
But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere:
There lies his crown in water deep,
Till Durin wakes again from sleep."

Gig-galad

"Gil-galad was an Elven-king.
Of him the harpers sadly sing:
the last whose realm was fair and free
between the mountains and the sea.

...

But long ago he rode away,
and where he dwelleth none can say;
for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where the shadows are."

Snowmane's song

"Faithful servant yet master's bane,
Lightfoot's foal, swift Snowmane."

And my favorite quote:

"Meddle not in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger."

[SarumansTreason]

Perhaps the wisest quote in the whole Lord of the Rings, is my favourite. Mithrander said:
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them Frodo? Then don't be so quick to deal out death in Judgement. Even the wise cannot forsee all ends."

Something like that. Knowing me, I screwed it up worse than the movie putting it in the wrong scene. I also enjoy the rings poem:
"Three rings for the elven kings under the sky,
Seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone.
Nine for mortal men doomed to die.
One for the dark lord on his dark throne,
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them,
One to bring them all in and in the Darkness bind them,
In the land of Mordor where the Shadows Lie."

[Lindir]

"For once more the lust of battle was upon him; and he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people."

That is one of my favourite quotes.

And this, though it is but a part of my favourite song:

"O Boromir! The Tower of Guard shall ever nortward gaze
To Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days."

[Hirila]

My favourite poem is from the Book of Lost Tales:

I don`t know all of it by heart and I don`t have the book with me (great fault :D I know). It is called "House of lost Play" and it begins like that:


We knew the land once , you and I,
And once we wandered there...



It is about how the children of men come to the little house of lost play in their dreams and there get to know each other not knowing themselves in the "real" world.

Eriol is being told that poem I think in the garden outside the house of lost play during one of the nights of his stay.

[Tar-Steve]

I apologize for not being able to quote it (I don't have a Sil with me here) but my clear favorite is the one spoken by Beren that ends with "that Luthien bof a time should be!"

Too good!

(If anyone has it, please post it 'cause it's awesome stuff.)

[Kementari]

Steve, thats from the Lay of Lethian, when Beren sets off alone to Thangorodrim and he makes a song about Luthien and she and Huan hear him singing it so they know where he is.. anyway i'll post it

" ...Though all to ruin fell the world,
and were disolved and backward hurled,
unmade into the old abyss,
yet were its making good for this--
the dusk the dawn the earth the sea--
that Luthien for a time should be"

*sob* God, that guy is sweet. :D

[EverEve]

these are some of the ones i like:

Omen --estel Edain, u-chebin estel anim
i gave hope to the Dunedain, I have kept no hope for myself

3 rings for the elven kings beneath the sky,
7 for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone,
9 for mortal men doomed to die
1 for the dark lord on his dark throne,
in the land mordor where the shadow lies
one ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
one ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,
in teh land of mordor, where the shadow lies.

Yet there may be a light beyond the darkness.....

many that live deserve death, and some that live deserve to die. can u give it to them frodo? dont be to quick to deal out death and judgement, for even the wise cant see all ends.

[syongstar]

A star shines on our meeting is holy because it is so rare and beautiful to meet a kindred spirit

[chrome_rocknave]

Well, I'm more attached to a less dramatic song...The Road Goes Ever On.

[Tyaronumen]

"And I will not say: do not weep! For not all tears are an evil."

[Legolam]

"Pity? It was pity that stayed his hand"

I love that quote, and I'm so glad they got it in the movie, even in the wrong scene!

[Evenstar]

Those are all great! One of my favorites is Tom Bombadil's Song. I'm sorry I don't have the book right now but its the one that starts "Ho Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadilo!...." You know what I mean:)

[Beleg Strongbow]

Mine would have to be in the movie when Pippin says I'm coming to and then asks where he is going and also in the book when he says I'll have to go they need someone with intelligence on this quest.

[tookish-girl]

I like Pippin's line about going with Frodo "and you'd have to tie us up in a sack to stop us" or something along those lines. They gave it to Merry in the movie, I also like the scene where all the hobbits wake up in the shire as they are setting off and Pippin wakes murmering "Is the bath water ready?"

[Lantarion]

elin silva lumin omentilvo
That is mort probably the worst typo I have *ever* seen!! I've seen this phrase misspelt, but wow.. No offense, syong, but it goes like this: Elen sila lumenn'omentielvo (I couldn't get the accents in there, but that's close enough).
My favorite poem, or at least one of 'em, is Aragorn's song by Bilbo: "All that is gold does not glitter", etc.
I must agree with Legolam: I think the one he posted is one of the wisest quotes in the entire book. Marvelous...
But I also like (laughs) this quote (begins to titter uncontrollably): "This is the doom that we must deem". (guffaws loudly; starts laughing out loud, and doesn't stop until he can't see through the tears) :D :D

[dapence]

One of the items I've been planning to add to THETOLKIENFORUM.com is a random quote from one of Tolkien's works to appear on the home page.

If you'd like to contribute your favorite passage from "The Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings," "The Silmarillion," or one of the "History of Middle-earth" series, please post it in this thread.

When posting your choice(s), be sure to type it in exactly as posted.

You can be certain the classic quotes -- "One Ring to rule them all ...," "All that is gold does not glitter ...," et cetera -- will be included, so there's no need to post it. I'd like to have some of the lesser known passage included in the database.

Also, since we're going to use the thread to pick the entries from, lets keep the 'me too' posts to a minimum. :) Thanks.

Sound Cool? Have fun.

[Chymaera]

'Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer' :)
'There's more to come yet,' said Tom, 'or I'm mighty mistook. Lots and none at all, it is,' he said. 'No burra-hobbits, but lots of these here dwarves. That's about the shape of it!' :D
The King beneath the moutains, The King of carven stone, The lords of silver fountains, Shall come into his own!Far over the misty moutains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away ere the break of day, To seek the pale enchanted gold.:cool:

[¤-Elessar-¤]

hmmm.... this always gives me goosebumps, but the whole little part does too...just too good of writing, I guess ;)
Out of Dout, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hopes end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin, and a red nightfall!

[Kementari]

" And thus in anguish Beren paid, for that great doom upon him laid; the deathless love of Luthien, too fair for love of motal Men. And in his fate was Luthien snared, the deathless in dying shared; and Fate them forged a binding chain, of living love and mortal pain."

thats my fav. passage from The Lays of Beleriand

[Camille]

My favorites:

In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit...
the very begining of Tolkiens world!!!

From the UT:
Give with a free hand but give only your own

and from the Rings of Power:
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter

there you go!

[Beorn]

"Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself," said Denethor. "Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay yet in the dregs?"

At last the three companions turned away, and never again looking back they rode slowly homewards; and they spoke no word to one another until they came back to the Shire. But each had great comfort in his friends on the long grey road.
At last they rode over the downs and took the East Road, and then Merry and Pippin rode on to Buckland; and already they were singing again as they went. But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was yellow light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor upon his lap.
He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.

'I have come,' he said. 'But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!'

Hard and cruel and bitter was the land that met his gaze. Before his feet the highest ridge of the Ephel Dúath fell steeply in great cliffs down into a dark trough, on the further side of which there rose another ridge, much lower, its edge notched and jagged with crags like fangs that stood out black against the red light behind them: it was the grim Morgai, the inner ring of the fences of the land. Far beyond it, but almost straight ahead, across a wide lake of darkness dotted with tiny fires, there was a great burning glow; and from it rose in huge columns a swirling smoke, dusty red at the roots, black above where it merged into the billowing canopy that roofed in all the accursed land.


And, what happened to the list used on www.thelordoftherings.com ?

[Istar]

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A suden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!
And the rest of Bilbo's walking song.

Also, I'd like to see some of the passages in Elvish, such as Galadriel's Lament (in Elvish or Frodo's translation, they're both good to me).

[Goldberry344]

I will take the ring, though I do not know the way.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.


there ye go.

[Ancalagon]

Probably far too long to add as a quote, but after Walters my second favourite is;

'Tears unnumbered ye shall shed; and the Valar will fence Valinor against you, and shut you out, so that not even the echo of your lamentation shall pass over the mountains. On the House of Fëanor the wrath of the Valar Leith from the West unto the uttermost East, and upon all that will follow them it shall be laid also. Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well; and by treason of kin unto kin, and the fear of treason, shall this come to pass. The Dispossessed shall they be for ever.
'Ye have spilled the blood of your kindred unrighteously and have stained the land of Aman. For blood ye shall render blood, and beyond |man ye shall dwell in Death's shadow. For though Eru appointed to you to die not in Eä, and no sickness may assail you, yet slain ye may be, and slain ye shall be; by weapon and by torment and by grief; and your houseless spirits shall come then to Mandos. There long shall ye abide and yearn for your bodies, and find little pity though all whom ye have slain should entreat for you. And those that endure in Middle-earth and come not to Mandos shall grow weary of the world an with a great burden, and shall wane, and become as shadows of regret before the younger race that cometh after. The Valar have spoken.


That scares the pants off me:)

[Chymaera]

"...I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he who walks unseen.'...'I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.'...'I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.' ...'I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider,' went on Bilbo beginning to be pleased with his riddling.

[Mormegil]

From Unfinshed Tales: 'Of Tuor and his coming to Gondolin'
And as they waited one came through the trees, and they saw that he was a tall man, armed, clad in black, with a long sword drawn; and they wondered, for the blade of the sword was also black, but the edges shone bright and cold. Woe was graven on his face, and when he beheld the ruin of Ivrin he called aloud in grief, saying: 'Ivrin, Faelivrin! Gwindor and Beleg! Here once I was healed. But now never shall I drink the draught of peace again.

And also, From The Shaping Of Middle Earth: 'The earliest Silmarillion'
Fionwe will fight Morgoth on the plain of Valinor, and the spirit of Turin shall be beside him; it shall be Turin who with his black sword will slay Morgoth, and thus the children of Hurin shall be avenged.

[Turgon]

Feanor 'Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor
'Get thee gone from my gate , thou jail-crow of Mandos!'

Turgon 'Of Maeglin'
'I will not debate with you, Dark Elf. By the swords of the Noldor alone are your sunless woods defended.'

Sam 'Journey in the Dark'
'I like that' said Sam. 'I should like to learn it.'

[Chymaera]

The Hobbit:The Unexpected Party
'Confusticate and bebothered these dwarves!'
:D

[Niniel]

Oh no, I had typed all my favourite quotes, and now the site has thown me out before I could post them... There goes again (in shorter bits):

'This is the Master-ring, the One ring to rule them all. This is the One Ring that he lost many ages ago, to the great weakening of his power. He greatly desires it, but the must NOT get it.'
' This ring!' he stammered, 'How, how on earth did it come to me?'
Then he knew that it was not leaves, but the sound of the Sea far-off; a sound that he had never heard in waking life, though it had often troubled his dreams.

[Niniel]

'By Elbereth and Lúthien the fair,' said Frodo with a last effort, lifting up his sword, 'You shall have neither the Ring nor me!'
'But it is a heavy burden. So heavy that none could lay it on another. I do not lay it on you; but if you take it freely, I will say that your choice is right, and though all the mighty elf-friends of old, Hador, and Húrin, and Túrin, and Beren himself were assembled together, your seat should be among them.'
'Fool of a Took!' he growled. 'Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance. Now be quiet!'

[Niniel]

I'll just go on, OK? Is there a final date when you want the quotes?
And suddenly he felt the Eye. There was an eye in the Dark Tower that did not sleep. He heard himself crying out: Never, never! Or was it: Verily I come, I come to you? he could not tell. Then, as a flash form some other point of power there came to his mind another thought: Take it off! Take it off! Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring! The two powers strove in him. For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented. Suddenly he was aware of himself again. Frodo, neither the Voice nor the Eye: free to choose, and with only a moment to do so. He took off the Ring.
'How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he has ever judged. Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men.'
'So old that almost I feel young again, as I have not felt since I journeyed with you children.'

[Niniel]

You have no order now, and I cast you from the order and from the Council. Saruman, your staff is broken!'
For a moment it appeared to Sam that his master had grown and Gollum had shrunk: a tall stern shadow, a mighty lord who hid his brightness in a grey cloud, and at his feet a little whining dog. Yet the two were in some way akin and not alien: they could reach on another's minds.
They Eye, that horrible growing sense of a hostile will that strove with great power to pierce all shadows of cloud, and earth, and flesh, and to see you: to pin you under its deadly gaze, naked, immovable. So thin, so frail and thin, the veils had become that still warded it off.
'Alas for Boromir! It was too sore a trial! Not if I found it on the highway I would take it, I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.'

[DGoeij]

Walter posted the best one, but this one I like too.
From the Council of Elrond, first line of Bilbo's poem about Aragorn:

All that is gold does not glitter...

[Niniel]

Well, it seems you don't HAVE favourite quotes or something... well, I'll just post one other.And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in the Sammath Naur in the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-Dûr was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he hade made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare. Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung. From all his policies and webs of fear and treachery, from all his stratagems and wars his mind shook free; and throughout his realm a tremor ran; his slaves quailed, and his armies halted, and his captains suddenly steerlees, bereft of will, wavered and despaired. For they were forgotten. The whole mind and purpose of the Power that wielded them was now bent with overwhelming force upon the mountain. At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurled southwards to Mount Doom.

[Mindy_O_Lluin]

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When Spring is come to garth and field,
and corn is in the blade;
When blossom like a shining snow is on
the orchard laid;
When shower and Sun upon the Earth with
fragrance fill the air,
I'll linger here and will not come, because
my land is fair.
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Also, about Fangorn:

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"Dangerous!" cried Gandalf. "And so am I, very dangerous: more dangerous than anything you will ever meet, unless you are brought alive before the seat of the Dark Lord. And Aragorn is dangerous, and Legolas is dangerous. You are beset with dangers, Gimli son of Glóin; for you are dangerous yourself, in your own fashion."
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[Sherlock]

But no wizardry nor spell, neither fang nor venom, nor devil's art nor beast-strength, could overthrow Huan of Valinor; and he took his foe by the throat and pinned him down.

[Winch]

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve :p

[Chymaera]

Aww! Winch beat me too it.'Which order shall we go in?' said Frodo. 'Eldest first, or quickest first? You'll be last either way Master Peregrin.'
'They're mine!' cried Frodo. 'Given to me by Mrs. Maggot, a queen among farmers' wives. Take your greedy hands away, and I'll serve them.';)

[Goblin-Cleaver]

A Elebreth Gilthoniel,
silivren penna miriel
o menel algar elenath!
Na-chaered palan-diriel
O galadhremmin ennorath,
Fanulios, le linnathon
nef aear, si nef aearon!
--Elrond

Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo!
By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow,
By fire, sun and moon, hearken now and hear us!
Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

and all the rest of tom's songs.

[Kat]

What about Eowyn's "I will smite you if you touch him".
A great moment....

[Chymaera]

'.....No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memery of tree or grass or flower, no image of the moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it with my waking eyes, and all else fades.'

[Chymaera]

'What a tale we have been in, Mr. Frodo, haven't we?' he said. 'I wish I could hear it told! Do you think they'll say:
Now comes the story of Nine-fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom?
And everyone will hush, like we did, when in Rivendell they told us the tale of Beren One-handed and the Great Jewel. I wish I could her it! And I wonder how it will go on after out part.'

[Mindy_O_Lluin]

Oh, excellent, I love that part. And the "I'm glad you're here with me Sam"
It was so sublime.

[Chymaera]

'Your pardon, sir! I marked you not, for I was listening to the birds. Indeed sir you find me in a sour temper; for lo! here I have a black-wing rogue fat with impudence who singeth songs before unknown to me. and in a tongue that is strange! It irks me sir, it irks me, for methought at least I knew the simple speeches of all birds. I have a mind to send him down to Mandos for his pertness!


Rúmil, The Music of the Ainur: The Book of Lost Tales, Part One

[Elfarmari]

Sorry, all of mine are long.
These are from the silmarillion:
Then when Fingon heard from afar the great trumpet of Turgon his brother, the shadow passed and his heart was uplifted, and he shouted aloud: "Utulie'n aure! Aiya Eldalie ar Atanatari, utulie'n aure!" The day has come! Behold, people of the Eldar and Fathers of Men, the day has come! And all those who heard his great voice echo in the hills answered crying: "Auta i lome!" ' The night is passing!'
There he [Hurin] was bound by the power of Morgoth, and Morgoth standing beside him cursed him again; and he said:"Sit now there; and look out upon the lands where evil and despair shall come upon those whom thou lovest. Thou hast dared to mock me, and to question the power of Melkor, Master of the fates of Arda. Therefore with my eyes thou shalt see, and with my ears thou shall hear; and never shalt thou move from this place until all is fulfilled unto its bitter end."
Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva! Day shall come again!' Seventy times he uttered that cry; but they took him at last alive...
These are from the Lay of Leithian:
He chanted a song of wizardry,
Of piercing, opening, of treachory,
Revealing, uncovering, betraying.
Then sudden Felagund there swaying,
Sang in a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;
Of changing and shifting shape,
Of snares eluded, broken traps,
The prison opening, the chain that snaps.
Backwards and forwards swayed their song.
Reeling foundering, as ever more strong
The chanting swelled, Felagund fought,
And all the magic and might he brought
Of Elvenesse into his words.
Softly in the gloom they heard the birds
Singing afar in Nargothrond,
The sighting of the Sea beyond,
Beyond the western world, on sand,
On sand of pearls on Elvenland.
Then in the doom gathered; darkness growing
In Valinor, the red blood flowing
Beside the Sea, where the Nolder slew
The Foamriders, and stealing drew
Their white ships with their white sails
From lamplit havens. The wind wails,
The wolf howls. The ravens flee.
The ice mutters in the mouths of the Sea.
The captives sad in Angband mourn.
Thunder rumbles, the fires burn-
And Finrod fell before the throne.
A king there sat, most dark and fell
of all that under heavens dwell.
Than earth or sea, than moon or star
more ancient was he, mightier far
in mind abysmal than he thought
of Eldar or of Men, and wrought
of strength primeval; ere the stone
was hewn to build the world, alone
he walked in darkness, fierce and dire,
burned, as he wielded it, by fire.
In fatefull hour was Beren born:
he laughed at dart and wailing horn;
fleetest of foot of living men,
tireless on fell and light on fen,
elf-wise in wood, he passed away,
defended by his hauberk grey
of dwarfish craft in Nogrod made,
where hammers rang in cavern's shade.

[Eledhwen]

I love these bits, buried in Appendices A and B of LotR

SAMWISE GOES WEST Year 1482 APPENDIX B
On September 22 Maser Samwise rides out from Bag End. He comes to the Tower Hills, and is last seen by Elanor, to whom he gives the Red Book afterwards kept by the Fairbairns. Among them the tradition is handed down from Elanor that Samwise passed the Towers, and went to the Grey Havens, and passed over Sea, last of the Ring-bearers.



GIMLI GOES WEST End of APPENDIX A
We have heard tell that Legolas took Gimli Gloin's son with him because of their great friendship, greater than any that has been between Elf and Dwarf. If this is true, then it is strange indeed: that a Dwarf should be willing to leave Middle-earth for any love, or that the Eldar should receive him, or that the Lords of the West should permit it. But it is said that Gimli went also out of desire to see again the beauty of Galadriel; and it may be that she, being mighty among the Eldar, obtained this grace for him. More cannot be said of this matter

[CloakedShadow]

Now at this last we must take a hard road, a road unforeseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril--to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire

That's one of my favorite quotes, but to explain why would be a task for many months...:D

[Anamatar IV]

This is sharper than thy tongue!


That quotes scared me when I read it the other day. Not what Feanor said but that Fingolfins tongue is actually sharp. You dont want to know what is forming in my mind. Nooooo not with the warning system.
;) :rolleyes: :)

[Eledhwen]

...Elrond's heart misgave him, and he said to Mithrandir: 'Nonetheless I forebode that the One will yet be found, and then war will arise again, and in that war this Age will be ended. Indeed in a second darkness it will end, uless some strange chance deliver us that my eyes cannot see.'

'Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the wise falter.'

[LadyGaladriel]

I love the descriptions of Elrond and Gandalf I love my siggy .

[Chymaera]

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, found it boring, absurd, and contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kind of writing they evidently prefer.

-from The Forward of the Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings-:p ;) :D

[Anamatar IV]

my favorite quote of all time:

Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens.

[CloakedShadow]

I agree, Anamatar...that's a great quote...I'd put it on my signiture...but quite a few people have it already! :D

[Niniel]

Here's another one from me...

'You have grown, Halfling. Yes, you have grown very much. You are wise, and cruel. You have robbed my revenge of sweetness, and now I must go hence in bitterness, in debt to your mercy. I hate it and you! Well, I go and I will trouble you no more. But do not expect me to wish you health and a long life. You will have neither. But that is not my doing. I merely foretell.'