“If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
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