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1 " Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can. "
― J.R.R. Tolkien , Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
2 " A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often do. "
3 " Kalbine ateş düşmesinden de kaçın kalbinin buz tutmasından da... "
4 " An honest hand and a true heart may hew amiss; and the harm may be harder to bear than the work of a foe. "
5 " Но имало един, който завиждал на тая почит и завистта му растяла с възмъжаването на Турин; наричал се Саерос, син Итилборов. Той бил от ония Нандори, дето намерили убежище в Дориат след гибелта на своя владетел Денетор върху хълма Амон Ереб по време на Първата белериандска битка [...] и нямало дружба между тях и хората. [...] Саерос обаче дълго живял в Менегрот и спечелил уважението на краля, а по нрав бил горделив и се отнасял високомерно с всички които смятал за по-ниски по ранг и заслуги от него. Сприятелил се с песнопоеца Даерон, понеже сам бил надарен певец, ала хората не му допадали, а най-силна неприязън изпитвал към рода на Берен Ерхамион. "
6 " If I choose to send thee, Tuor son of Huor, then believe not that thy one sword is not worth the sending. "
7 " Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.’ Now "
8 " I am in too great doubt to rule. To prepare or to let be? To prepare for war, which is yet only guessed: train craftsmen and tillers in the midst of peace for bloodspilling and battle: put iron in the hands of greedy captains who will love only conquest, and count the slain as their glory? Will they say to Eru: "At least your enemies were amongst them?" Or to fold hands, while friends die unjustly: let men live in blind peace, until the ravisher is at the gate? What then will they do: match naked hands against iron and die in vain, or flee leaving the cries of women behind them? Will they say to Eru: "At least I spilled no blood?"-- Tar-Meneldur in Armenelos, Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife "
9 " For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marvelling that they gave life so freely of which they had on earth so little. "
10 " It is said that he was the first of Men to reach the Great Sea, and that none, save the Eldar, have ever felt more deeply the longing that it brings. "
11 " They had begun to forget: forget their own beginnings and legends, forget what little they had known about the greatness of the world. It was not yet gone, but it was getting buried: the memory of the high and the perilous. But you cannot teach that sort of thing to a whole people quickly. There was not time. And anyway you must begin at some point, with some one person. I dare say he was “chosen” and I was only chosen to choose him; but I picked out Bilbo. "
12 " Merry he could be, and kindly to the young and simple, and yet quick at times to sharp speech and the rebuking of folly; but he was not proud, and sought neither power nor praise, and thus far and wide he was beloved among all those that were not themselves proud. "
13 " For love may abide and suffer unwedded. "
14 " In black anger he turned back to battle; and bearing as a banner Celebrimbor’s body hung upon a pole, shot through with Orc-arrows, he turned upon the forces of Elrond. "
15 " Prin urmare, nu te supune, Ancalimë. Puțin doar dacă te supui, te supun ei mai departe, până te pleci de tot. Înfigeți rădăcinile în stâncă, înfruntă vântul, chiar dacă îți zburătăcește toate frunzele. "
16 " Se străduise să facă din Lórien un refugiu și o insulă de pace și frumusețe, ca o aducere aminte a zilelor străvechi, dar acum era plin de regrete și presimțiri rele, știind că visul de aur se grăbea să se preschimbe într-o trezire cenușie. "
17 " Dacă soața lui Húrin poate să plece împotriva tuturor sfaturilor pentru că o cheamă glasul sângelui, la fel poate și fiica lui Húrin. Mi-ai dat numele de Bocirea, numai că nu voiesc a jeli de una singură după tată, după frate și după mamă. "
18 " A woman must share her husband’s love with his work and the fire of his spirit, or make him a thing not loveable. "
19 " in the armour of Fate (as the Children of Earth name it) there is ever a rift, and in the walls of Doom a breach, until the full-making, which ye call the End. So it shall be while I endure, a secret voice that gainsayeth, and a light where darkness was decreed. "