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(illustration by Ted Nasmith) |
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(illustration by John Howe) |
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The Lord of the Rings
Part I. The Fellowship of the Ring
Quotes from Tolkien's Novel
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"Each member of the Company was busy with his own thoughts.
The heart of Legolas was running under the stars of a summer night in some
northern glade amid the beech-woods; Gimli was fingering gold in his mind, and wondering if it were fit to be
wrought into the housing of the Lady's gift. Merry and Pippin in the middle boat were ill at ease, for Boromir sat
muttering to himself, sometimes biting his nails, as if some restlessness or doubt consumed him..." |
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"A sudden dread fell on the Company.
'Elbereth Gilthoniel!', sighed Legolas as he looked up. Even as he
did so, a dark shape, like a cloud, and yet not a cloud, for it moved far more swiftly, came out of the blackness
in the South, and sped towards the Company, blotting out all light as it approached. Soon it appeared as a great winged
creature, blacker than the pits in the night. Fierce voices rose up to greet it from across the water. Frodo felt
a sudden chill running through him and clutching at his heart; there was a deadly cold, like the memory of an old
wound, in his shoulder. He crouched down, as if to hide."
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" 'Behold the Argonath, the Pillars of the Kings!' cried Aragorn. [...]
Great power and majesty they still wore, the silent wardens of the long-vanished
kingdom. [...]
Frodo turned and saw Strider, and yet not Strider; for the wheather-torn
Ranger was no longer there. In the stern sat Aragorn son of Arathorn [...] a king returning from exile to his own land." |
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