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‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
“Meneldur was a man of gentle mood, without pride, whose exercise was rather in thought than in deeds of the body. He loved dearly the land of Númenor and all things in it, but he gave no heed to the Sea that lay all about it; for his mind looked further than Middle-earth: he was enamoured of the stars and the heavens.”
― Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
― Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“He told of a wondrous land beyond the Sunset Sea, a land without winter or want, where death had no dominion.”
― A Feast for Crows
― A Feast for Crows
“Then the woodmen made great pyres and burned the bodies of the soldiers of Morgoth in heaps, and the smoke of their vengeance rose black into heaven, and the wind bore it away westward.”
― Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
― Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“The Noldor also it was who first achieved the making of gems; and the fairest of all gems were the Silmarils, and they are lost.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
Brad’s 2025 Year in Books
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252 books
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