Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in her eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.
Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Eowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair; fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she now was suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, grey cloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone.
Celtic 'is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come . . . Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.
J.R.R. TolkienElrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.
J.R.R. TolkienBut the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: power philosophical
Não há nada como procurar, se queremos encontrar alguma coisa. (...) Com certeza que, em geral, encontramos alguma coisa, se procuramos, mas nem sempre é aquilo que procurávamos.
J.R.R. TolkienAs estrelas são muito mais brilhantes do que gemas incontáveis. A lua é muito mais branca do que prata entesourada. O lume é mais luzente na lareira ao crepúsculo do que ouro tirado de minas.
J.R.R. TolkienThough here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.
No todos los que vagan están perdidos
J.R.R. TolkienGo back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: courage perseverance moving-forward
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: advice equivocation gildor
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