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Quotes of the Week - May 15, 2012:
"His timing was perfect: As women's hair was liberated, so were
their lives." -- Linda Wells, Allure magazine Editor-in-Chief,
describing Vidal Sassoon, the late iconic hairstylist, as a feminist
pioneer due to the haircuts he created for women in 1960s.
"It is important for me personally to go ahead and affirm that
same-sex couples should be able to get married." -- Barack Obama,
U.S. president, becoming the first sitting American head of state to
declare his support for gay marriage.
"Above all else, we both agree that President Obama must be defeated.
The task will not be easy." -- Rick Santorum, former Republican
presidential candidate, endorsing onetime rival Mitt Romney.
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| Authors: The Lord of the Rings Quotes
- Quotations, Sayings, Famous Quotes, Songs and Poems from The Return
of the King, Book 6 |
Book
5 The Return of the King Quotes Book 6 |
| See also: The
Fellowship of the Ring The
Two Towers Songs,
Poems The Lord of the Rings |
Wild fantasies arose in his mind; and he saw Samwise the Strong,
Hero of the Age, striding with a flaming sword across the darkened
land, and armies flocking to his call as he marched to the overthrow
of Barad-dûr. And then all the clouds rolled away, and
the white sun shone, and at his command the vale of Gorgoroth
became a garden of flowers and trees and brought forth fruit.
He had only to put on the Ring and claim it for his own, and
all this could be.
The Lord of the Rings
Sam, Chapter 'The Tower of Cirith Ungol'. |
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and
due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use,
not the hands of others to command.
The Lord of the Rings
Sam, Chapter 'The Tower of Cirith Ungol'. |
In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night
And swaying beeches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.
The Lord of the Rings
Sam's Song in the Orc Tower, Chapter 'The
Tower of Cirith Ungol'. |
The Shadow that bred can only mock, it cannot make: not real
new things of its own. I don't think it gave life to the orcs,
it only ruined them and twisted them.
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo on the orcs, Chapter 'The Tower of
Cirith Ungol'. |
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high
up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while.
The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the
forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear
and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow
was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high
beauty for ever beyond its reach.
The Lord of the Rings
Chapter 'The Land of Shadow'. |
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"I have come," he said. "But I do not choose
now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The
Ring is mine!" And suddenly, as he set it on his finger,
he vanished from Sam's sight.
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo, Chapter 'Mount Doom'.
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But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have
something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have
destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even
at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is
achieved and now all is over. I am glad you are here with
me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo, Chapter 'Mount Doom'.
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Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to
the world.
The Lord of the Rings
Sam after defeat of Sauron, Chapter 'The
Field of Cormallen'. |
"A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and
then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water
in a parched land; and has he listened the thought came to Sam
that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment,
for days upon days without count. It fell upon his ears like
the echo of all the joys he had ever known.
The Lord of the Rings
Gandalf after the victory over Sauron,
Chapter 'The Field of Cormallen'. |
"How do I feel?" he cried. "Well, I don't know
how to say it. I feel, I feel' — he waved his arms in the
air — 'I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the
leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have
ever heard!"
The Lord of the Rings
Gandalf celebrates the victory over Sauron,
Chapter 'The Field of Cormallen'. |
And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their
merriment and tears the clear voice of a minstrel rose like
silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them,
now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until
their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their
joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions
where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very
wine of blessedness.
The Lord of the Rings
After being victorious against Sauron,
Chapter 'The Field of Cormallen'. |
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To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling.
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling.
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,
In Eressëa, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not: land of my people for ever!
The Lord of the Rings
Legolas' Song of the Sea, Chapter 'The
Field of Cormallen'.
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This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that
shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age
is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to
preserve what may be preserved. For though much has been saved,
much must now pass away.
The Lord of the Rings
Warden of the Houses of Healing, Chapter
'The Steward and the King'. |
But when Aragorn arose all that beheld him gazed in silence,
for it seemed to them that he was revealed to them now for the
first time. Tall as the sea-kings of old, he stood above all
that were near: ancient of days he seemed and yet in the flower
of manhood; and wisdom sat upon his brow, and strength and healing
were in his hands, and a light was about him.
The Lord of the Rings
Chapter 'The Steward and the King'. |
Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the
table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like
to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.
The Lord of the Rings
Gandalf, Chapter 'The Steward and the King'. |
This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that
shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age
is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to
preserve what may be preserved. For though much has been saved,
much must now pass away.
The Lord of the Rings
Gandalf, Chapter 'The Steward and the King'. |
I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him now when
he departs to the Havens; for mine is the choice of Lúthien,
and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.
The Lord of the Rings
Queen Arwen, Chapter 'Many Partings'. |
You have chosen the Evening, but my love is given to the Morning.
And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away for ever.
The Lord of the Rings
Gimli, Chapter 'Many Partings'. |
Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising
he rode singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
Hope he rekindled, and in hope ended;
over death, over dread, over doom lifted
out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
The Lord of the Rings
Éomer's Song , Chapter 'Many Partings'. |
You should know that above all I hate the caging of live things,
and I will not keep even such creatures as these caged beyond
great need. A snake without fangs may crawl where he will.
The Lord of the Rings
Treebeard, Chapter 'Many Partings'. |
The Road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet.
The Lord of the Rings
The Old Walking Song from Bilbo Baggins,
Chapter 'Many Partings'. |
There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire,
it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am
wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where
shall I find rest?
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo, Chapter 'Homeward Bound'. |
"I am with you at present," said Gandalf, "but
soon I shall not be. I am not coming to the Shire. You must
settle its affairs yourselves; that is what you have been trained
for. Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer
my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so.
And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You
are grown up now. Grown indeed very high; among the great you
are, and I have no longer any fear at all for any of you!"
The Lord of the Rings
Chapter 'Homeward Bound'. |
"If I hear not allowed much oftener," said Sam,
"I'm going to get angry."
The Lord of the Rings
Chapter 'The Scouring of the Shire'. |
If we all got angry together something might be done.
The Lord of the Rings
Robin Smallburrow on the oppressive government
of Lotho "the Chief", Chapter 'The Scouring of the
Shire'. |
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo speaks out against killing the captured
Saruman, Chapter 'The Scouring of the Shire'. |
You have robbed my revenge of sweetness, and now I must go
hence in bitterness, in debt to your mercy. I hate it and you!
Well, I go and I will trouble you no more. But do not expect
me to wish you health and long life. You will have neither.
But that is not my doing. I merely foretell.
The Lord of the Rings
Saruman to Frodo, Chapter 'The Scouring
of the Shire'. |
You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one
and whole, for many years.
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo to Sam at their last parting, Chapter
'The Grey Havens'. |
I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not
for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger:
some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may
keep them. But you are my heir: all that I had and might have
had I leave to you.
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo to Sam, Chapter 'The Grey Havens'. |
You will be the Mayor, of course, as long as you want to be,
and the most famous gardener in history; and you will read things
out of the Red Book, and keep alive the memory of the age that
is gone. so that people will remember the Great Danger and so
love their beloved land all the more.
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo to Sam, Chapter 'The Grey Havens'. |
Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea
comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace!
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
The Lord of the Rings
Last lines of Gandalf, Chapter 'The Grey
Havens'. |
But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as
day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was yellow
light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and
he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair,
and put little Elanor upon his lap.
He drew a deep breath. "Well, I'm back," he said.
The Lord of the Rings
Last lines of The Lord of the Rings, Chapter
'The Grey Havens'. |
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Book
5 The Return of the King Quotes Book 6 |
| See also: The
Fellowship of the Ring The
Two Towers Songs,
Poems The Lord of the Rings |
| The Lord of the Rings, an epic fantasy
novel, was written by South African born, English writer J. R. R.
Tolkien. Published in 1954 and 1955, it is a sequel to Tolkien's earlier
fantasy novel The Hobbit. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, and
died on September 2, 1973. |
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