"At least for a while the road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
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Tolkien
Elrond
Thu, November 3rd 2011
Fri, September 9th 2011
"‘Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.’"
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
Gandalf
Mon, May 2nd 2011
"Some there are among us who sing that the Shadow will draw back, and peace shall come again. Yet I do not believe that the world about us will ever again be as it was of old, or the light of the Sun as it was aforetime. For the Elves, I fear, it will prove at best a truce, in which they may pass to the Sea unhindered and leave Middle-earth for ever. Alas for Lothlórien that I love! It would be a poor life in a land where no mallorn grew. But if there are mallorn-trees beyond the Great Sea, none have reported it."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
Haldir
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The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien
Sat, October 30th 2010
"Happy folk are Hobbits to dwell near the shores of the sea!” said Haldir. “It is long since any of my folk have looked on it, yet still we remember it in a song. Tell me of these havens as we walk.”
“I cannot,” said Merry. “I have never seen them. I have never been out of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don’t think I should have had the heart to leave it.”
“Not even to see fair Lothlórien?” said Haldir. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien
Fri, October 29th 2010
"That is true,” said Legolas. “But the Elves of this land were of a race strange to us of the silvan folk, and the trees and the grass do not now remember them. Only I hear the stones lament them: deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone. They are gone. They sought the Havens long ago."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
Legolas talking about Hollin
The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien
Tue, October 26th 2010
"A few creatures came and looked at them when the fire had died away. A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed.
“Hobbits!” he thought. “Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There’s something mighty queer behind this.” He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
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Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Mon, October 25th 2010
Sun, September 26th 2010
"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.
His sword was long, his lance was keen,
his shining helm afar was seen;
the countless stars of heaven’s field
were mirrored in his silver shield.
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
"
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien
Mon, August 30th 2010
"A great dread fell on him as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo’s side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At least with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice.
“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien
Sat, August 21st 2010
