J.R.R. Tolkien · 452 pages
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“Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often do.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“Kalbine ateş düşmesinden de kaçın kalbinin buz tutmasından da...”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“An honest hand and a true heart may hew amiss; and the harm may be harder to bear than the work of a foe.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“If I choose to send thee, Tuor son of Huor, then believe not that thy one sword is not worth the sending.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“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”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.’ Now”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
“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.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
J.R.R. Tolkien
Born place: in Bloemfontein, Mangaung, Free State, South Africa
Born date January 3, 1892
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“If your sins were blood, child, you would drown in a river of your own making.”
― Sabaa Tahir, quote from A Torch Against the Night
“The essence of this knowledge was the ability to `see all' and to `know all'. Was this not precisely the ability Adam and Eve acquired after eating the forbidden fruit, which grew on the branches of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil'? · Finally, just as Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden, so were the four First Men of the Popol Vuh deprived of their ability to `see far'. Thereafter `their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close ...' Both the Popol Vuh and Genesis therefore tell the story of mankind's fall from grace. In both cases, this state of grace was closely associated with knowledge, and the reader is left in no doubt that the knowledge in question was so remarkable that it conferred godlike powers on those who possessed it. The Bible, adopting a dark and muttering tone of voice, calls it `the knowledge of good and evil' and has nothing further to add. The Popol Vuh is much more informative. It tells us that the knowledge of the First Men consisted of the ability to see `things hidden in the distance', that they were astronomers who `examined the four corners, the four points of the arch of the sky', and that they were geographers who succeeded in measuring `the round face of the earth'. 7 Geography is about maps. In Part I we saw evidence suggesting that the cartographers of an as yet unidentified civilization might have mapped the planet with great thoroughness at an early date. Could the Popol Vuh be transmitting some garbled memory of that same civilization when it speaks nostalgically of the First Men and of the miraculous geographical knowledge they possessed? Geography is about maps, and astronomy is about stars. Very often the two disciplines go hand in hand because stars are essential for navigation on long sea-going voyages of discovery (and long sea-going voyages of discovery are essential for the production of accurate maps). Is it accidental that the First Men of the Popol Vuh were remembered not only for studying `the round face of the earth' but for their contemplation of `the arch of heaven'?”
― Graham Hancock, quote from Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
“Dear sir: twelve hours is as twelve years to me. I imagine you in your home, smiling, thinking of me. That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you, every moment we're apart.”
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