BEST QUOTES FROM THE SILMARILLION

“It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea.”

“The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or stone, When Durin woke and walked alone.”

“He chanted a song of wizardry, Of piercing, opening, of treachery, Revealing, uncovering, betraying. Then sudden Felagund there swaying, Sang in answer a song of staying, Resisting, battling against power, Of secrets kept, strength like a tower, And trust unbroken, freedom, escape; Of changing and of shifting shape, Of snares eluded, broken traps, The prison opening, the chain that snaps.”

“From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

“All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”

“But now the world was all changed. The Music of the Ainur by which he had governed the thoughts of the Valar and their moods was overthrown, and east kindled to hatred which strife for mastery in Arda; and the Valar were slow to perceive that evil had come to them from outside…”

“A man that flies when he’d rather fight must have the stuff of winged creatures in him.”

“But the Valar endured and watched, and ever they labored unceasingly in strife against Melkor to wrest from him the Secret of others designed by Ilúvatar.”

“And it is doom that they seek. For though oft he sees himself in shining smooth water, the eagles of Manwë fly ever above, about the halls of Mandos.”

“He who flies can fight, he who can fight has courage, he who has courage can endure.”

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

“Who can withstand him? Few there are to rival him, but there is one mightier than he. Against the One they have no power. The Ring belongs to Sauron.” 40 NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD QUOTES

“The beauty of the elves had passed away from Middle-earth, and the days of the Westlands were numbered.”

“Death is their fate, the gift of Ilúvatar, which as Time wears even the Powers shall envy. But Melkor has cast his shadow upon it, and confounded it with darkness, and brought forth evil out of good.”

“Yet it is said that even as Varda ended her labours, and they were long, when first Menelmacar strode up the sky and the blue fire of Helluin flickered in the mists above the borders of the world, in that hour the Children of the Earth awoke, the Firstborn of Ilúvatar.”

“Of the fabric of Manwë’s realm, Ilmarin, were made the towers of Taniquetil, tallest of all mountains upon Earth. Its white fane radiant beneath the uneclipsed blue of Earth’s sky, the great mountain of Aman stood alone.”

“It is said that Aulë has often gone at the bidding of Manwë, on the errands of Varda, or even upon his own many devices.”

“And the Elves believed that Men were sometimes – successful, and sometimes – not.”

“Then Manwë sat silent, and the thought of Yavanna that she had put into his themes grew and unfolded in his mind, and it seemed that he understood all that he had heard.”

“Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.”

“And Morgoth came.”

“But Túrin coming slew Beleg Cúthalion in the darkness, being beguiled by the guile of Glaurung; and so ended Beleg, truest of friends, greatest in skill of all that harboured in the woods of Beleriand in the Elder Days, at the hand of him whom he most loved.”

“And the Eldar deemed it a great thing, a feat most marvelous, that long ago among their foes should be such a friendship.”