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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often do.
An honest hand and a true heart may hew amiss; and the harm may be harder to bear than the work of a foe.
If I choose to send thee, Tuor son of Huor, then believe not that thy one sword is not worth the sending.
I am in too great doubt to rule. To prepare or to let be? To prepare for war, which is yet only guessed: train craftsmen and tillers in the midst of peace for bloodspilling and battle: put iron in the hands of greedy captains who will love only conquest, and count the slain as their glory? Will they say to Eru: "At least your enemies were amongst them?" Or to fold hands, while friends die unjustly: let men live in blind peace, until the ravisher is at the gate? What then will they do: match naked hands against iron and die in vain, or flee leaving the cries of women behind them? Will they say to Eru: "At least I spilled no blood?" -- Tar-Meneldur in Armenelos, Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife
For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marvelling that they gave life so freely of which they had on earth so little.
It is said that he was the first of Men to reach the Great Sea, and that none, save the Eldar, have ever felt more deeply the longing that it brings.
Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.’ Now
Prin urmare, nu te supune, Ancalimë. Puțin doar dacă te supui, te supun ei mai departe, până te pleci de tot. Înfigeți rădăcinile în stâncă, înfruntă vântul, chiar dacă îți zburătăcește toate frunzele.
Se străduise să facă din Lórien un refugiu și o insulă de pace și frumusețe, ca o aducere aminte a zilelor străvechi, dar acum era plin de regrete și presimțiri rele, știind că visul de aur se grăbea să se preschimbe într-o trezire cenușie.
Dacă soața lui Húrin poate să plece împotriva tuturor sfaturilor pentru că o cheamă glasul sângelui, la fel poate și fiica lui Húrin. Mi-ai dat numele de Bocirea, numai că nu voiesc a jeli de una singură după tată, după frate și după mamă.

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