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posting some of my favorite quotes from tolkien's stories whenever i stumble across them. header image is ulmo & tuor by john howe.

[oiolaire]

“Thus Fingon found what he sought. For suddenly above him far and faint his song was taken up, and a voice answering called to him. Maedhros it was that sang amid his torment.”

The Silmarillion, Of the Return of the Noldor

[oiolaire]

“‘Atarinya tye-meláne,’ said Herendil suddenly, and clasping his father's knees he laid his head there and wept. 'It is an evil hour that putteth such a choice on thee,' said his father, laying a hand on his head. 'But fate calleth some to be men betimes. What dost thou say?' 'I stay, father.'”

The Fall of Númenor, Appendix B.

[oiolaire]

“Long was the way that fate them bore, O'er stony mountains cold and grey, Through halls of iron and darkling door, And woods of nightshade morrowless. The Sundering Seas between them lay, And yet at last they met once more, And long ago they passed away In the forest singing sorrowless.”

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, A Knife in the Dark.

[oiolaire]

“Then, it is said, he stood forlorn looking out to sea, and it was night, but far away he could see a glimmer of light upon Eressëa ere it vanished into the West. Then he cried aloud: 'I will follow that light, alone if none will come with me, for the ship that I have been building is now almost ready.' But even as he said this he received in his heart a message, which he knew to come from the Valar, though in his mind it was remembered as a voice speaking in his own tongue. And the voice warned him not to attempt this peril; for his strength and skill would not be able to build any ship able to dare the winds and waves of the Great Sea for many long years yet. 'Abide now that time, for when it comes then will your work be of utmost worth, and it will be remembered in song for many ages after.' 'I obey, Círdan answered, and then it seemed to him that he saw (in a vision maybe) a shape like a white boat, shining above him, that sailed west through the air, and as it dwindled in the distance it looked like a star of so great a brilliance that it cast a shadow of Círdan upon the strand where he stood.”

The History of Middle-Earth, The Peoples of Middle-Earth.

[oiolaire]

“And high and noble as was Elemmakil, greater and more lordly was Ecthelion, Lord of the Fountains, at that time Warden of the Great Gate. All in silver was he clad, and upon his shining helm there was set a spike of steel pointed with a diamond; and as his esquire took his shield it shimmered as if it were bedewed with drops of rain, that were indeed a thousand studs of crystal.”

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth, Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin.

[oiolaire]

“Lovely to heart’s enchantment is that land, Tuor, as you shall find, if ever your feet go upon the southward roads down Sirion. There is the cure of all sea-longing, save for those whom Doom will not release.”

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth, Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin.

[oiolaire]

“But neither the Sun nor the Moon can recall the light that was of old, that came from the Trees before they were touched by the poison of Ungoliant. That light lives now in the Silmarils alone.”

The Silmarillion, Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor.