August 2009
7 posts
July 2009
1 post
“Long live the Halfings! Praise them with great paise!
Cuio I Pheriain anann!...”
June 2009
50 posts
“One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of...”
– Pippin describing Fangorn’s eyes, The Two Towers (1954), Treebeard
“Deserves it! I dare say he does. Many that live deserve death and some that die...”
– Gandalf talking to Frodo about Gollum, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Shadow of the Past
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens”
– Gimli addressing Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Ring goes South
“Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
– The Fellowship of the Ring, Three is Company
“Frodo:
When evening in the Shire was grey,
His footsteps on the Hill were...”
– Frodo & Sam’s eulogy for Gandalf
“Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be...”
– The Council Of Elrond (pg 240 LotR; FoTR)
Riddles in the Dark
melloveschallah:
Thirty white horses on a red hill
First they champ
Then they stamp
Then they stand still.
Teeth!
“Gil-galad was an Elven-king.
Of him the harpers sadly sing:
The last whose...”
– Gil-Galad the Elven King
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day that...
“Home is behind
The world ahead.
And there are many paths to tread.
Through...”
– Peregrin Took
“Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain my fall...”
– A Drinking Song sung by the hobbits as they rest on their way to Buckland, The Fellowship of the Ring Book 1, Chapter ‘A Short Cut to Mushrooms’.
Bilbo leaves Bag End
“From the ashes, a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadow shall spring....”
