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(illustration by Alan Lee) |
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The Lord of the Rings
Part III. The Return of the King
Quotes from Tolkien's Novel
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| Aragorn: The passing of the Grey Company |
" 'Always my days have seemed to me too short to achieve my desire', answered
Aragorn." |
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" 'It is a gift I bring you from the Lady of Rivendell', answered Halbarad.
'She wrought it in secret, and long was the making. But she also sends word to you: The days now are short.
Either our hope cometh, or all hopes end. Therefore I send thee what I have made for thee. Fare well, Elfstone!' " |
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" 'Yes, you have it,' said Gimli. 'The Lady of the Wood! She read many hearts
and desires. now why did we not wish for some of our own kinsfolk, Legolas?'
cLegolas stood before the gate and turned his bright eyes away north and east, and his fair
face was troubled. 'I do not think that any would come,' he answered. 'They have no need to ride to war; war
already marches on their own lands." |
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"But Merry had eyes only for Aragorn, so startling was the change that he
saw in him, as if in one night many years had fallen on his head. Grim was his face, grey-hued and weary." |
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" 'You will do as you will, my Lord Aragorn,' said Théoden. 'It is
your doom, maybe, to tread strange paths that others dare not." |
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" 'Good-bye!' said Merry. He could find no more to say. He felt very small
and depressed by all these gloomy words. More than ever he missed the unquenchable cheerfulness of Pippin." |
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" 'There go three that I love, and the smallest not the least,' he [Aragorn] said. 'He knows
not to what end he rides; yet if he knew, he would still go on.'
'A little people, but of great worth are the Shire-folk,' said Halbarad. 'Little do they
know of our long labour for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not.' " |
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" 'But he wields great dominion, nonetheless,' said Gimli; 'and now he will
strike more swiftly.'
'The hasty stroke goes oft astray,' said Aragorn." |
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