Did your Father consult your Will and Pleasure, when he Embraced your Mother? Did he ask you, if you thought fit to see that Age, or to wait for another; if you would be satisfied to be the Son of a Sot, or if you had the Ambition to spring
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“Pax!” he bellowed as he struck. “Pax! Vobiscum! Love thy neighbour! Proximum tuum! Sicut te ipsum! Whoresons!”
― The Tower of Fools
― The Tower of Fools
“Sméagol won’t grub for roots and carrotses and – taters. What’s taters, precious, eh, what’s taters?’ ‘Po – ta – toes,’ said Sam.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“We must do something to delay the enemy first. We will make them fear the Chamber of Mazarbul!’ he said grimly, feeling the edge of his sword, Andúril.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“You cannot pass,’ he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. ‘I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Gandalf stood up and strode forward, holding his staff aloft. ‘Listen, Hound of Sauron!’ he cried. ‘Gandalf is here. Fly, if you value your foul skin! I will shrivel you from tail to snout, if you come within this ring.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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