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121 " I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. -Frodo Baggins "
― J.R.R. Tolkien
122 " Now fair and marvellous was that vessel made, and it was filled with a wavering flame, pure and bright; and Earendil the Mariner sat at the helm, glistening with dust of elven-gems, and the Silmaril was bound upon his brow. Far he journeyed in that ship, even into the starless voids; but most often was he seen at morning or at evening, glimmering in sunrise or sunset, as he came back to Valinor from voyages beyond the confines of the world. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Silmarillion
123 " Therefore Morgoth came, climbing slowly from his subterranean throne, and the rumour of his feet was like thunder underground. And he issued forth clad in black armour; and he stood before the King like a tower, iron-crowned, and his vast shield, sable unblazoned, cast a shadow over him like a stormcloud. But Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star; for his mail was overlaid with silver, and his blue shield was set with crystals; and he drew his sword Ringil, that glittered like ice. "
124 " Then Maeglin bowed low and took Turgon for lord and king, to do all his will; but thereafter he stood silent and watchful, for the bliss and splendour of Gondolin surpassed all that he had imagined from the tales of his mother, and he was amazed by the strength of the city and the hosts of its people, and the many things strange and beautiful that he beheld. Yet to none were his eyes more often drawn than to Idril the King's daughter, who sat beside him; for she was golden as the Vanyar, her mother's kindred, and she seemed to him as the sun from which all the King's hall drew its light. "
125 " Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. "
126 " It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
127 " How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
128 " The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. "
129 " I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faërie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , Tolkien On Fairy-stories
130 " Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Lightthrough whom is splintered from a single Whiteto many hues, and endlessly combinedin living shapes that move from mind to mind. "
131 " The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. "
132 " Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire? "
133 " Grief is a hone to a hard mind. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Children of Húrin
134 " But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
135 " There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for. "
136 " Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. "
137 " That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party. "
138 " Courage is found in unlikely places. "
139 " It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit. "
140 " Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , The Hobbit