“If only nicer words could make an awful thing less so,” Helmer said, limping as he ran, “we’d be having a good time.”
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Númenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“and there in that pleasant corner of the world they plied their well-ordered business of living, and they heeded less and less the world outside where dark things moved, until they came to think that peace and plenty were the rule in Middle-earth and the right of all sensible folk.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
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