For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's. Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death-blow?' And the Ring that he held seemed to him exceedingly fair to look on; and he would not suffer it to be destroyed.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: lord-of-the-rings elrond the-one-ring sauron isildur the-ring-of-power
I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once.
"Elvii?" Marcone inquired.
"The plural would be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.
Stichwörter: art lord-of-the-rings gollum elvis art-collection
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No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: tolkien lord-of-the-rings simarillion
And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it.
Jo WaltonStichwörter: love sex tolkien lord-of-the-rings middle-earth the-lord-of-the-rings
The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
Jo WaltonStichwörter: reading books tolkien lord-of-the-rings middle-earth the-lord-of-the-rings
Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: lord-of-the-rings samwise-gamgee
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: gandalf lord-of-the-rings j-r-r-tolkien death-penalty capital-punishment
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: world gandalf deep lord-of-the-rings dwarves gimli beggining nameless-things
His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment.
J.R.R. TolkienStichwörter: lord-of-the-rings hobbits
The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of myth being that it should have no taint of allegory to the maker and yet should suggest incipient allegories to the reader.
[C.S. Lewis writes to J.R.R. Tolkien on December 7, 1929]
Stichwörter: myth allegory lord-of-the-rings
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