What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.
J. R. R. TolkienAmong the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lรบthien
J. R. R. TolkienThe romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.
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