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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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| Tol Brandir. |
" 'Well Frodo', said Aragorn at last. 'I fear that the burden is laid upon you. You are
the Bearer appointed by the Council. Your own way you alone can choose. [...] Such is your fate.'
Frodo did not answer at once. Then he spoke slowly. 'I know that haste is needed, yet
I cannot choose. The burden is heavy. Give me an hour longer and I will speak. Let me be alone!'
Aragorn looked at him with kindly pity. 'Very well, Frodo, son of Drogo,'
he said. 'You shall have an hour, and you shall be alone.' " |
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"Frodo shivered.
Suddenly Boromir came and sat beside him. 'Are you sure you do not suffer
needlessly?' he said. 'I wish to help you. You need counsel in your hard choice. Will you take mine?'
'I think I know already what counsel you would give, Boromir', said Frodo.
'And it would seem like wisdom but for the warning of my heart.'
'Warning? Warning against what?', said Boromir sharply.
'Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the
burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men.' "
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" 'The Ring! It is not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and
doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!' " (Boromir) |
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"He [Frodo] seemed to be in a world of mist in which there were only shadows: The Ring
was upon him. [...] And suddenly he felt the Eye. There was an eye in the Dark Tower that did not sleep. He knew that
it had become aware of his gaze. A fierce eager will was there. It leaped towards him; almost like a finger he felt it,
searching for him. Very soon it would nail him down, know just exactly where he was. Amon Lhaw it touched. It glanced
upon Tol Brandir - he threw himself from the seat, crouching, covering his head with his grey hood.
He heard himself crying out: Never, never! Or was it: Verily I come,
I come to you? He could not tell. Then a flash from some other point of power there came to his mind another thought:
Take it off! Take it off! Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring!
The two powers strove in him. For a moment, perfectly balanced between their
piercing points, he writhed, tormented..."
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