I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
J. R. R. TolkienThere I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
J. R. R. TolkienA few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
J. R. R. TolkienEomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.
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