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Poems and Tales of Middle-Earth:
(illustration by Alan Lee) |
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The Dwarves's song:
"Under the Mountain dark and tall
The King has come unto his hall!
His foe is dead,
the Worm of Dread,
And ever so his foes shall fall.
The sword is sharp, the spear is long,
The arrow swift, the Gate is strong;
The heart is bold that looks on gold;
The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong.
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fells like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.
On silver necklaces they strung
The light of stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, from twisted wire
The melody of harps they wrung.
The mountain throne once more is freed!
O! wandering folk, the summons heed!
Come haste! Come haste! across the waste!
The king of friend and kin has need.
Now call we over mountains cold,
'Come back unto the caverns old!'
Here at the Gates the king awaits,
His hands are rich with gems and gold.
The king is come unto his hall
Under the mountain dark and tall.
Here at the Gates the king awaits,
His hands are rich with gems and gold.
The Worm of Dread is slain and dead,
And ever so our foes shall fall.' |
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The Lord of the Rings
Prelude. The Hobbit
Quotes from Tolkien's Novel
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There: Unexpected Conflicts.
This page contains many major plot spoilers so if you have not finished the novel,
you may want to stop reading and looking at these pictures now! |
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" 'Back now to the Mountain!' cried Thorin. 'We have little time to lose.'
'And little food to use!' cried Bilbo, always practical on such points." |
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"Bilbo's heart fell, both at the song and the talk: they sounded much too warlike." |
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" 'The treasure is likely to be your death, though the dragon is no more!' "
(raven) |
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" 'Thank you very much I am sure,' said Bilbo with a bow. 'But I don't think I
ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.' " |
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" 'My mind does not change with the rising and the setting of a few suns,'
answered Thorin." |
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" 'If you don't like my Burglar, please don't damage him. Put him down, and
listen first to what he has to say!' " (Gandalf) |
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" 'We are sent from Dain son of Nain,' they said when questioned. 'We are hastening
to our kinsmen in the Mountain [...] but who are you that sit in the plain as foes before defended walls?'
This, of course, in the polite and rather old-fashioned language of such occasions, meant simply: 'You have no
business here. We are going on, so make way or we shall fight you!' " |
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| The Battle of Five Armies: an unexpected battle |
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"It was a terrible battle. The most dreadful of Bilbo's experiences, and the one which
at the time he hated most." |
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"The yells were deafening. The rocks were stained black with goblin blood." |
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"Already behind him among the goblin dead lay many men and many dwarves, and many
a fair elf that should have lived yet long ages merrily in the wood." |
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