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“A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.” (The Silmarillion Quotes)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.” (The Silmarillion Quotes)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world’s end.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“It is said by the Eldar that in water their lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“Many are the strange chances of the world,’ said Mithrandir, ‘and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“Then he called him Maeglin, which is Sharp Glance, for he perceived that the eyes of his son were more piercing than his own, and his thought could read the secrets of hearts beyond the mist of words.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“These too in their time shall find that all that they do redounds at the end only to the glory of my work.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“They sat beside the stone, and did not speak again; and when the sun went down Morwen sighed and clasped his hand, and was still; and Hurin knew that she died. He looked down at her in the twilight and it seemed to him that the lines of grief and cruel hardship were smoothed away.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
“To him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion
