Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.
Junot DíazTags: spanish racism lord-of-the-rings elvish white-people
You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.
Neil GaimanTags: tolkien sexism lord-of-the-rings
We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: lord-of-the-rings faramir
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
J.R.R. TolkienTags: fantasy lord-of-the-rings gollum fantasy-fiction
I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.
Lemony SnicketTags: lord-of-the-rings
I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.
Jo WaltonTags: reading books tolkien lord-of-the-rings middle-earth the-lord-of-the-rings
Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they saw sneak, sneak. Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice."
Sam felt a little remorseful, but not yet trustful.
"Sorry," he said. "I'm sorry, but you startled me out of my sleep. And I shouldn't have been sleeping, and that made me sharp. But Mr. Frodo, he's that tired, I asked him to have a wink; and well, that's how it is. Sorry. But where HAVE you been to?"
"Sneaking," said Gollum, and the green glint did not leave his eyes.
...
"Hullo, Smeagol!" Frodo said. "Found any food? Have you had any rest?"
"No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak."
"Don't take names to yourself, Smeagol," Frodo said. "It's unwise, whether they are true or false."
"Smeagol has to take what's given to him," answered Gollum. "He was given that name by kind Master Samwise, the hobbit that knows so much.
Tags: food sleep path lord-of-the-rings rest gollum hobbit name smeagol the-two-towers frodo-baggins samwise-gamgee sneak
There is darkness there that never sleeps.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: lord-of-the-rings boromir gondor fellowship-of-the-ring
It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: arwen lord-of-the-rings fellowship-of-the-ring
Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet upon our road. Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: lord-of-the-rings j-r-r-tolkien gimli fellowship-of-the-ring
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