Fellowship of the ring Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet upon our road. Torment in the dark was the danger that…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Tell me, Legolas, why did I come on this Quest? Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, saying that…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I cannot name.…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the…

— J.R.R.Tolkin

“But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had…

— Joseph Conrad

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“When from out of error’s darkness With a word both sure and ardent I had drawn the fallen soul, And you, filled with deepest…

— Anonymous

“He didn’t know how one’s flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn’t understand what it was like to gaze into the future and…

— Lorraine Heath

“Somewhere in this endless night, a spark still burns, fragile, defiant, a beacon for the lost. And as the storm deepens, I remember that…

— Dark Night Beacon

“Old terror crouched in the shadows. It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned…

— Terry Pratchett

“Elrond was in his chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the trees.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered…

— Arthur Golden