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Poems and Tales of Middle-Earth:
(illustrations by John Howe) |
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(Ancient Elvish cry)
"Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!"
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(Ancient Elvish cry)
"Gilthoniel A Elbereth!
A Elbereth Gilthoniel
o menel palan-diriel,
le nallon sí di'nguruthos!
A tiro nin, Fanuilos!
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The Lord of the Rings
Part II. The Two Towers
Quotes from Tolkien's Novel
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| Shelob's Lair. |
"They walked as it were in a black vapour wrought of veritable darkness itself
that, as it was breathed, brought blindness not only to the eyes but to the mind, so that even the memory of
colours and of forms and of any light faded out of thought. Night always had been, and always would be, and
night was all."
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"Here was some opening in the rock far wider than any they had yet passed; and out of it
came a reek so foul, and a sense of urking malice so intense, that Frodo reeled. And at that moment Sam too lurched
and fell forwards.
'Fighting off both the sickness and the fear, Frodo gripped Sam's hand. [...] They had not
gone more than a few yards when from behind came a sound, startling and horrible in the heavy padded silence:
a gurgling, bubbling noise, and a long venomous hiss."
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"Even as Frodo spoke he felt a great malice bent upon him, and a deadly regard
considering him. [...] The radiance of the star-glass was broken and thrown back from their thousand facets, but behind
the glitter a pale deadly fire began steadily to glow within, a flame kindled in some deep pit of evil thought.
Monstruous and abominable eyes they were, bestial and yet filled with purpose and with hideous delight, gloating
over their prey trapped beyond all hope of escape."
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"Sam did not wait to wonder what was to be done [...] He sprang forward
with a yell, and seized his master's sword in his left hand. Then he charged. No onslaught more fierce was
ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creaturearmed with little teeth, elone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands
bove its fallen mate."
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" 'Frodo, Mr. Frodo!' he called. 'Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam
calling. 'Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo! O wake up, Frodo, dear me. Wake up!' [...]
And suddenly he saw that he was in the picture that was revealed to him in the mirror
of Galadriel in Lórien: Frodo with a pale face lying fast asleep under a great dark cliff. Or fast asleep
he had thought then. 'He's dead!' he said. 'Not asleep, dead!' And as he said it, as if the words had set the venom
to its work again, it seemed to him that the hue of the face grew livid and green.
And then black despair came down on him, and Sam bowed to the ground, and drew his grey hood
over his head, and night came into his heart, and he knew no more. [...]
He thought of the places behind where there was a black brink and an empty fall into
nothingness. There was no escape that way. That was to do nothing, not even to grieve. That was not what he
had set out to do."
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"Frodo's face was fair of hue again, pale but beautiful with an elvish
beauty, as of one who has long passed into the shadows."
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"The world changed, and a single moment of time was filled with an hour of
thought. At once he [Sam] was aware that hearing was sharpened while sight was dimmed, but otherwise than in Shelob's
lair. All things about him were not dark but vague; while he himself was there in a grey hazy world, alone, like
a small black solid rock, and the Ring, weighing down his left hand, was like an orb of hot gold. He did not feel
invisible at all, but horribly and uniquely visible; and he knew that somewhere an eye was searching for him.
He heard the crack of stone, and the murmur of water far off in Morgul Vale..."
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" 'By all the signs, Captain Shagrat, I'd say there's a large warrior loose,
Elf most likely, with an elf-sword anyway, and an axe as well maybe; and he's loose in your bounds, too, and you've
never spotted him. Very funny indeed!' Gorbag spat. Sam smiled grimly at this description of himself."
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"Sam reeled, clutching at the stone. He felt as if the whole dark world
was turning upside down. So great was the shock that he almost swooned, but even as he fought to keep a hold of
his senses, deep inside him he was aware of the comment: 'You fool [...] your heart knew it. Don't trust your head
Samwise, it is not the best part of you.' "
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