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“For myself, I would see the White Tree flower again in the courts of the kings, and the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace: Minas Anor again as of old, full of light, high and fair, beautiful as a queen among other queens: not a mistress of many slaves, nay, not even a kind mistress of willing slaves. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo…. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. “I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. He understands as Galadriel and Gandalf do that doing so would destroy the land he loves. Both love Gondor fiercely, but Faramir would never take the Ring to save it.
# 7: I do not love the sword for its sharpness, but for what it defends.įaramir is a different man than his brother. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”Īragorn, The Return of the King, Book 1, “Chapter II: The Passing of the Grey Company,” p. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. “A time may come soon, when none will return.
(You can read more about it in my second post in my Éowyn series.) Heroes are often called to unseen, unsung acts of courage. Éowyn wishes to fight and win glory for herself, but Aragorn counsels her to stay at her post in Dunharrow. Sam, The Two Towers, Book 2, “Chapter V: The Window on the West,” p. But neither rock nor river would be to blame.” You, you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock or drownd yourself, like a hobbit in a river. But perhaps you could call her perilous, because she’s so strong in herself. It strikes me that folk takes their peril with them into Lorien, and finds it there because they’ve brought it. Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair in springtime…. Warm as sunlight, cold as frost in the stars. “Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes like a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowndilly, small and slender like. (You can read more about this power here and here.) She sees into their hearts and makes them look at their mixed motives and ambitions, and some believe that she planted the dark motives there herself. Sam explains how folk get confused by her power. It takes a hobbit to describe the paradoxical majesty and merriment of Galadriel. # 9: Folk takes their peril with them into Lorien. Merry, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 1, “Chapter V: A Conspiracy Unmasked,” p. We are horribly afraid – but we are coming with you or following you like hounds.” We know most of what Gandalf has told you. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours – closer than you keep it yourself. You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. Merry and Pippin get wise to this and decide to come with him, despite his protests. When it is time to leave the Shire in The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo tries to sneak off with Sam without being noticed. # 10: We are horribly afraid, but we are coming with you.
For another, I think we best understand quotes when we remember when and why they are said.īesides, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish, and we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say. For one thing, his language is too beautiful and inspiring to truncate. They’re not very pithy, but I really love including the broader context for the quotes. Here are my top ten passages from The Lord of the Rings. After escaping briefly to Middle Earth, I return to our world newly awake to its threads of myth and majesty. Tolkien is so good at drawing us out of the mundane and trivial parts of our lives to see that we are living in great stories. Hopefully, today could be an invitation to pick up the trilogy, if only to hunt for a favorite passage. It’s an insult to speed-read good literature. You can hardly sit down and read 1,000 pages in a single day. Now, it’s hard to spontaneously read Tolkien. The Tolkien Society chose this date because it is the day that the Ring was destroyed in Mount Doom.* You might have heard that tomorrow, March 25, is Tolkien Reading Day.
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