Moon-letters are rune-letters, but you cannot see them.
There are in any case many heroes but very few good dragons.
Thus came Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, Isildur’s heir, out of the Paths of the Dead, borne upon a wind from the sea to the kingdom of Gondor.
As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
Therefore he willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else; and of their operation everything should be, in form and deed, completed, and the world fulfilled unto the last and smallest.
1541 In this year 1 on March 1st came at last the Passing of King Elessar. It is said that the beds of Meriadoc and Peregrin were set beside the bed of the great king. Then Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down Anduin and so over Sea; and with him, it is said, went Gimli the Dwarf. And when that ship passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring.
I will give you a name,” he said to it, “and I shall call you Sting.
Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.
You have chosen the Evening; but my love is given to the Morning.
The ‘Elves’ are ‘immortal’, at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death.
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water.
However it may prove, one must tread the path that need chooses!
I look foul and feel fair.
You do not understand’ said Pippin. ‘You must go – and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming with you. Sam is an excellent fellow, and would jump down a dragon’r throat to save you, if he did not trip over his own feet; but you will need more than one companion in your dangerous adventure.
Unmasking the intentions of a Satanic character: He cannot be both counselor and tyrant.
The time of my thought is my own to spend.
Do not then stumble at the end of the road.
Wizards are always troubled about the future.
Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!
I am wounded,” he answered, “wounded; it will never really heal.