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Find a more Tolkien being Tolkien paragraph. I dare you.
[From 'Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth]
“Those were the broad days! Time was when I could walk and sing all day and hear no more than the echo of my own voice in the hollow hills. The woods were like the woods of Lothlórien, only thicker, stronger, younger. And the smell of the air!”
-J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
“[Galadriel] was then of Amazon disposition and bound up her hair as a crown when taking part in athletic feats.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 348
"He rose and looked at Gandalf. The others gazed at them in silence as they stood there facing one another. The grey figure of the Man, Aragorn son of Arathorn, was tall, and stern as stone, his hand upon the hilt of his sword; he looked as if some king out of the mists of the sea had stepped upon the shores of lesser men. Before him stooped the old figure, white, shining now as if with some light kindled within, bent, laden with years, but holding a power beyond the strength of kings."
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Chapter V: The White Rider)
"Hail, son of Húrin. Well met! [...] Evil have been all thy ways, son of Húrin. Thankless fosterling, outlaw, slayer of thy friend, thief of love, usurper of Nargothrond, captain foolhardy, and deserter of thy kin"
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"Hail, Nienor, daughter of Húrin. We meet again ere the end. I give thee joy that thou hast found thy brother at last. And now thou shalt know him: a stabber in the dark, treacherous to foes, faithless to friends, and a curse unto his kin, Túrin son of Húrin! But the worst of all his deeds thou shalt feel in thyself."
Glaurung to Túrin and Nienor. The Silmarillion, "Of Túrin Turambar", JRR Tolkien
“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
"His rage passes description – the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted."
~J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
