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Lord Elrond of Rivendell - Rank 9
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Personal Favorites...Quotes and/or Characters from Tolkien Books, Poems, or Films

All,
I have noticed from time to time that the Forums can get a little slow.
With the state of our world I can understand that other things take a higher priority.
And they should...
We aren't Hobbits even if we would like to be...
We aren't wizards who can wave our staffs and magic away our difficulties...

These forums are a place where we can share our love for Tolkien and build friendships that brighten our world...

So to that effect I am dedicating this thread.
It is very simple...no guessing or hunting up trivia or quotes or riddles.  No searching for the next alphabetical clue or definition.
It is just sharing from the Books, Poems, or Films connected to Tolkien.
You don't have to explain your choice. (unless you want to)
Just put it down to share with our friends here at the Forums.
Simple, direct, and hopefully a draw for our wayward friends who haven't posted for a time.

I'll go first;

Mine is a quote from the Peter Jackson movie of "THE TWO TOWERS".
Frodo. Sam, and Gollum are being held by Faramir and have just endured an attack by orcs and Nazgul...

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened.
But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam:  [He helps Frodo up and says:] That there is some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And its worth fighting for.

Comments are welcome...sharing a favorite of your own even more welcome...give it a try and let the sunshine in...




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My favorite is Sam's Song in the Orc Tower from the book.

"In Western lands beneath the sun"
"The flowers, they rise in Spring"
"The trees, they bud. The waters run"
"The merry finches sing."

"Oh there may be t'is cloudless night"
"And swaying beeches bear"
"The Elven stars like jewels white"
"Amidst their branching hair."

"Though here at journy's end I lie"
"In darkness buried deep."
"Beyound all towers strong and high"
"Beyond all mountains steep"

"Above all shadow rides the sun"
"And stars forever dwell."
"I'll not say that the day, it is done."
"Nor bid the stars farewell."

So full of hope in the darkest of days. the Elves named him well at the end of the quest. I am thinking of having parts of it put on my memorial stone.

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Lord Elrond of Rivendell - Rank 9
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Anorlas,
I like it.
Samwise touches so many parts of each of us.
Beautiful!
Thank you,
Bear


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Thorin Oakenshield - Rank 6
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Both of you have provided very good examples of where emotion can really stir while reading Tolkien's books. Particularly Samwise' poem Anorlas mentioned.

I guess my favourite would come from the Silmarillion. For example:

"We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.'"

An invidividual set to his cause. One which, whether right or not, he believes to be just and to which he is willing to sacrifice everything, even if it does not succeed. The perfect definition of 'I did it my way' and went out with a bang.

Also rather different but of no less worth:

Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.

A perfect comparison for how evil will ever spring forth in the course of time, and how people must always be on guard to defeat it, even if they know they will not eradicate it forever.

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Lord Elrond of Rivendell - Rank 9
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Mr. Baggins,
I really liked the image of courage and the taking a stand that their deeds will bring renown. Heroes and heroines committed to a path that will always be remembered in Arda.  What a wonderful favorite!
I really like it.

And I think you are right with the quote describing the ultimate villany of Morgoth.
It is dark and terrible...but is put in a beautiful dark way.

Well done Mr. Baggins!
Thank you!
Bear


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Lord Elrond of Rivendell - Rank 9
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Here is another of my Personal Favorites...
I think I like it so much because it is one of those rare looks at humility as a heroic quality.

Frodo bent his head. `And what do you wish? ' he said at last.
`That what should be shall be,' she answered. `The love of the Elves for their land and their works is deeper than the deeps of the Sea, and their regret is undying and cannot ever wholly be assuaged. Yet they will cast all away rather than submit to Sauron: for they know him now. For the fate of Lothlórien you are not answerable but only for the doing of your own task. Yet I could wish, were it of any avail, that the One Ring had never been wrought, or had remained for ever lost.'
'You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,'
said Frodo. `I will give you the One Ring, if you ask for it. It is too great a matter for me.'
Galadriel laughed with a sudden clear laugh. `Wise the Lady Galadriel may be,' she said, `yet here she has met her match in courtesy. Gently are you revenged for my testing of your heart at our first meeting. You begin to see with a keen eye. I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer. For many long years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring come into my hands, and behold! it was brought within my grasp. The evil that was devised long ago works on in many ways, whether Sauron himself stands or falls. Would not that have been a noble deed to set to the credit of his Ring, if I had taken it by force or fear from my guest?

`And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair! '
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.
'I pass the test,' she said. `I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.'
(The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter VII - "The Mirror of Galadriel", pg 366)

I would love to meet Lady Galadriel one day...before the Nolder began their "trail of tears"...perhaps in Doriath with the Lady Melian..."to sleep and at last a chance to dream..."





-- Edited by Bear on Monday 12th of April 2010 03:27:58 PM

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Not one of my favourites but this is a popular one:

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend..."

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Lord Elrond of Rivendell - Rank 9
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mouth of sauron,
It does have a ring to it.
And I wish to the higher power that it be part of every soldiers creed.
Faramir is a captain after my own heart.
And I love that quote..."War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend..." (The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Four, Chapter V - The Window on the West, pg 672)



-- Edited by Bear on Tuesday 13th of April 2010 03:04:23 AM

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This quote about Aragorn always stays in my mind for some reason:

"And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world." LOTR

Perhaps it doesn't contain anything much profound, but it is one of those sentences that can really strike quite deep inside of you when reading it.



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Lord Elrond of Rivendell - Rank 9
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Glorfindel 1235 wrote;
"This quote about Aragorn always stays in my mind for some reason:
'And long there he lay, an image of the splendor of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.' LOTR
Perhaps it doesn't contain anything much profound, but it is one of those sentences that can really strike quite deep inside of you when reading it." (Tolkien Forums > Utterly Miscellaneous > Personal Favorites...Quotes and/or Characters from Tolkien Books, Poems, or Films > Glorfindel 1235 > April 15th, 2010)
I think the portion of the paragraph you shared is an excellent example of Tolkien's attempt to show the nobility of Man.
Oh, Tolkien shows us the wretchedness of mankind (Grima Wormtongue, Bill Ferny, Denethor, the Ruffians in the Shire) but he takes great pains to reveal to us (sometimes through their flaws - like Boromir) those qualities which ennoble mankind. (as in Aragorn, Bard, Beregond, Beren, Eomer, Eowyn, Faramir, Theoden, Turin, etc.)
But the quote which you use goes to a mystical magical form in which that quality is made manifest through an image in Tolkien's imagination.
This noble image making is again shown in the balance of th
e entire paragraph you shared with us;
"Estel, Estel!" she cried, and with that even as he took her hand and kissed it, he fell into sleep.  Then a great beauty was revealed in him, so that all who after came there looked on him in wonder; for they saw that the grace of his youth, and the valor of his manhood, and the wisdom and majesty of his age were blended together.  And long there he lay, an image of the splendor of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world." (The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Appendix A - Annals Of The Kings And Rulers, Part I - "The Numenorean Kings", pg. 1063)

I thank you for your choice...it certainly appeals to me as a good one!




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I knew you'd be able to see deeper into it than I did, Bear.wink.gif

I just found it quite a well written sentence. Makes an impact. Stimulates the imagination. As opposed to many other favourite quotes which have a more profound complexity to them, a 'puzzle of life' which the quote easily and efficiently 'sums up'.

Are there any of the former type of quotes, like the one I posted, which you like Bear?

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