I will take the Ring, he said, though I do not know the way.
Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mo...
Go now, and die in what way seems best to you.
Give with a free hand, but give of your own.
Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself!
Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. There never was much hope, he answered. Just a fool's hope, as I have been told.
Gandalf for certain this time, he thought as he puffed along the passage. But it was not. It was two more dwarves, both with blue hoods, silver belts, and yellow beards; and each of them carried a bag...
Frodo drew the Ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and smooth, without mark or device that he could see. The gold looked very fair and pure, and Frodo thought how rich...
For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.
Farewell sweet earth and northern sky,
Fantasy can, of course, be carried to excess. It can be ill done. It can be put to evil uses. It may even delude the minds out of which it came. But of what human thing in this fallen world is that no...
Do you remember when we first met? I thought I had wandered into a dream.
Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still o...
But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril...
Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the...
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
− Se nur ĝi ne devis okazi en mia epoko, − diris Frodo.− Tiel pensas ankaŭ mi, − diris Gandalfo, − kaj tiel pensas ĉiuj, kiuj travivas tiajn epokojn. Sed tion ne ili decidas. Ni rajtas decidi nur tion...
Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim.(I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.)(Gilraen's linnod)