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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7c07628 | The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone! | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0c9e4f7 | individual destiny is to a large extent defined, and human potential frequently circumscribed, by social conventions as ephemeral as they are ''inscrutable. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 8d87e65 | Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good. | gerty-farish goodness lily-bart reputation the-house-of-mirth | Edith Wharton | |
| c362d13 | Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stenciled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 31f5b2d | Just so; she'd even feel aggrieved. But why? Because it's against the custom of the country. And whose fault is that? The man's again--I don't mean Ralph I mean the genus he belongs to: homo sapiens, Americanus. Why haven't we taught our women to take an interest in our work? Simply because we don't take enough interest in THEM. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1548d00 | But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away. | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| e819d29 | His hopeless challenge dauntless cried Fingolfin there: 'Come, open wide, dark king, you ghatsly brazen doors! Come forth, whom earth and heaven abhors! Come forth, O monstruous craven lord, and fight with thine own hand and sword, thou wielder of hosts of banded thralls, thou tyrant leaguered with strong walls, thou foe of Gods and elvish race! I wait thee here. Come! Show thy face! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4f0a587 | Non puoi passare - disse. Gli Orchi tacquero, e si fece un silenzio di morte - Sono un servitore del Fuoco Segreto, e reggo la fiamma di Anor. Non puoi passare. A nulla ti servira il fuoco oscuro, fiamma di Udun. Torna nell'Ombra! Non puoi passare | italiano khazad-dum la-compagnia-dell-anello the-fellowship-of-the-ring tolkien | J R R Tolkien | |
| d14cac7 | No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic mishap had been reported of many people, and especially of elderly gentlemen of dignity. | humor | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| bef0210 | Soft as butter they can be, and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3de7b70 | Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d61b549 | One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression... by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead." J.R.R. Tolkien" -- | Nathan Hale | ||
| 2d38d59 | It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. But such falls and betrayals, alas, have happened before. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2ce292c | He paused and looked at Frodo doubtfully. 'Have you got it here?' he asked in a whisper. 'I can't help feeling curious, you know, after all I've heard. I should very much like just to peep at it again. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6680cc2 | Karsilastigimiz saatin uzerinde bir yildiz parliyor. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 978459c | Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful, broad, bright-eyed, red-cheeked, with mouths apt to laughter, and to eating and drinking. And laugh they did, and eat, and drink, often and heartily, being fond of simple jests at all times, and of six meals a day (when they could get them). They were hospitable and delighted in parties, and in presents, which they gave away freely and eagerly accepted. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3947653 | This was an evil choice. Which way should he choose? And if both led to terror and death, what good lay in choice? | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2b0228c | Fifteen birds in five fir-trees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| cf04f0b | O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain, and the brook that leaps from hill to plain; but better than rain or rippling streams is Water Hot that smokes and steams. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a60753c | All his court were cast down in slumber, and all the fires faded and were quenched; but the Silmarils in the crown on Morgoth's head blazed forth suddenly with a radiance of white flame; and the burden of that crown and of the jewels bowed down his head, as though the world were set upon it, laden with a weight of care, of fear, and of desire, that even the will of Morgoth could not support. Then Luthien catching up her winged robe sprang i.. | evil | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| c3342d1 | Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c2e8987 | A tree there towere Tall and branching That house upholding The hall's wonder Its leaves their hangings Its limbs rafters Its mighty bole In the midst standing. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 5a4c09e | They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys. | shadows | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6c5ff6b | It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish, as my old gaffer used to say. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c1efafe | As she ran her gown rustled softly like the wind in the flowering borders of a river. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2585025 | No, and [the sun] will not rise today, Master Holbytla. Nor ever again, one would think under this cloud. But time does not stand still, though the Sun be lost. Make haste! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| b91cc25 | He had many hardships and adventures before he got back. The Wild was still the Wild, and there were many other things in it in those days beside goblins; but he was well guided and well guarded--the wizard was with him, and Beorn for much of the way--and he was never in great danger again. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0a3d2bc | Entonces Eowyn miro a Aragorn a los ojos y dijo: -!Deseame ventura, mi senor y curador! Y el respondio: -Siempre te desee ventura desde el dia en que te conoci. Y verte ahora feliz cura una herida en mi corazon. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e0235db | Is there no escape then?' said Frodo, looking around wildly. 'If I move I shall be seen and hunted! If I stay, I shall draw them to me! | j-r-r-tolkien the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings weathertop | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 029fd6b | Never leave your master, never, never: that was my right rule. And I knew it in my heart. May I be forgiven! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f4a226b | Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it were known that hobbits had such hides, all the hunters of Middle Earth would be riding to the Shire. | hobbits mithril the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 8c650dc | Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men. | frodo j-r-r-tolkien lord-of-the-rings men | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 16a04f4 | Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strange light. 'Smeagol will swear on the Precious.' Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! | gollum j-r-r-tolkien sam the-lord-of-the-rings the-tower-towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2c89675 | We're going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is all too likely that some will say at this point: "Shut the book now, dad; we don't want to read any more."' 'Maybe,' said Sam, 'but I wouldn't be one to say that. Things done and over and made into part of the great tales are different." | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9524640 | In the stern sat Aragon son of Arathorn, proud and erect, guiding the boat with skilful strokes; his hood was cast back, and his dark hair was blowing in the wind, a light was in his eyes: a king returning from exile to his own land. | j-r-r-tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5089c28 | His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming, Mr. Frodo!' He ran forward to the climbing path, and over it. At once the road lurned left and plunged steeply down. Sam had crossed into Mordor. | j-r-r-tolkien sam the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2eecdce | Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the world was shaped. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9d2d2ca | Frodo! Mr. Frodo, my dear!' cried Sam, tears almost blinding him. 'It's Sam, I've come!' He half lifted his master and hugged him to his breast. | j-r-r-tolkien master the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 2cb73f1 | Well, I suppose we must be going on again,' he said. 'I wonder how long it will be before we really are caught and all the toiling and the slinking will be over, and in vain.' He stood up. 'It's dark, and we cannot use the Lady's glass. Keep it safe for me, Sam. I have nowhere to keep it now, except in my hand, and I shall need both hands in the blind night. But Sting I give to you. I have got an orc-blade, but I do not think it will be my .. | orc-blade the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0e5e517 | Kalbine ates dusmesinden de kacin kalbinin buz tutmasindan da... | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f770ed3 | Then Frodo stirred and spoke with a clear voice, indeed with a voice clearer and more powerful than Sam had ever heard him use, and it rose above the throb and turmoil of Mount Doom, ringing in the roof and walls. '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! | j-r-r-tolkien sam the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a295041 | Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1397552 | The lesson in caution has been well learned,' said Strider with a grim smile. 'But caution is one thing and wavering is another. You will never get to Rivendell now on your own, and to trust me is your only chance. You must make up your mind. I will answer some of your questions, if that will help you to do so. But why should you believe my story, if you do not trust me already? Still here it is--- | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f1d7792 | In many ways,' answered the wizard. 'It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. It would possess him. | J.R.R. Tolkien |