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Poems and Tales of Middle-Earth:
(illustration by Alan Lee) |
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The Lord of the Rings
Part II. The Two Towers
Quotes from Tolkien's Novel
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| The Stairs of Cirith Ungol. |
"The whole city was falling back into a dark brooding shade, and silence.
Yet still it was filled with watchfulness."
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"The passage seemed to go on for miles, and always the chill air flowed over
them, rising as they went on to a bitter wind. The mountains seemed to be trying with their deadly breath to
daunt them, to turn them back from the secrets of the high places, or to blow them away into the darkness behind."
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" 'It's saying a lot too much,' said Frodo, and he laughed, a long clear laugh
from his heart. Such a sound had not been heard in those places since Sauron came to Middle-Earth. To Sam suddenly
it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them."
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" 'sleep!' said Frodo and sighed, as if out of a desert he had seen a mirage
of cool green. 'Yes, even here I could sleep.' "
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"In his lap lay Frodo's head, drowned deep in sleep; upon his white forehead
lay one of Sam's brown hands, and the other lay softly upon his master's breast. Peace was in both their faces.
Gollum looked at them. A strange expression passed over his lean hungry face. The gleam
faded from his eyes, and they went dim and grey, old and tired. A spasm of pain seemed to twist him, and he turned
away, peering back up towards the pass, shaking his head, as if engaged in some interior debate. Then he came
back, and slowly putting out a trembling hand, very cautiously he touched Frodo's knee - but almost the touch was
a caress. For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they would have thought that they beheld
an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond firends and kin, and the
fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing."
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"Gollum withdrew himself, and a green glint flickered under his heavy lids.
Almost spider-like he looked now, crouched back on his bent limbs, with his protruding eyes. The fleeting moment
had passed beyon recall."
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" 'Don't take names to yourself, Sméagol,' said Frodo. 'It's unwise,
whether they are true or false.'
'Sméagol has to take what's given to him,' answered Gollum. 'He was given that name
by kind Master Samwise, the hobbit that knows so much.' "
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