You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. TolkienOf the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their motherโs elder brother.
J. R. R. TolkienAlas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.
J. R. R. TolkienMy political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
J. R. R. TolkienFarewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lรบthien Tinรบviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Lรบthien for a time should be.
J. R. R. Tolkien