Quotes from JRR Tolkien

Contexts of quotes for the past week. All but for the last are from The Two Towers, by JRR Tolkien


Map Mordor���It is my fate to receive help from you, where I least looked for it.��� Frodo to Gollum, in the desolation before the Gates of Mordor.


���Your fate [is] to help me whom you long pursued with evil purpose. A continuation of Frodo���s speech to Gollum.


���The desire of it may betray you to a bitter end.��� Frodo warning Gollum about the treachery of the Ring.


���Which way should he choose? And if both led to terror and death, what good lay in choice?��� Frodo is faced with the choice of trying the ���secret��� way Gollum wants to show them and the obvious peril of the Black Gate.


���If ever you met me you wouldn���t forget me.��� Part of a bit of nonsense poetry Sam declaims, about Oliiphants.


���We might be wanting to go back. We might!��� Sam, deciding to send Gollum hunting in hopes of stretching their rations.


���His mother had told him about the sky, but he had never expected it to be this far away.��� Sue Ann Bowling, Homecoming. Roi is remembering the first time Derik ever took his slaves outdoors, and his first sight of the sky.


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