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Shadow Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.
- Above all shadows rides the sun.
- "We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like…
- A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
- One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often…
- All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are…
- You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the…
- Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for…
- For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there…
- Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing.…
- Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the…
- To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains.…
- Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides…
- There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty…
- You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
- Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright…
- Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea. His…
- Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie…
- For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they…
- But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so…
More Shadow Quotes
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot
- What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- I am about as detailed as a shadow. — Lynda Barry
- To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag… — Jean Baudrillard
- I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. — Martha Beck
- If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison
- In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher