Google| Subject | Re: Reading LotR and the newsgroups (was Re: Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America |
| From | Christopher Kreuzer |
| Date | 08/21/2004 18:56 (08/21/2004 18:56) |
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| Follows | ?jevind L?ng |
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?jevind L?ng <dnivejo.gnal@swipnet.se>wrote:
?jevind L?ng<snip>
"Christopher Kreuzer" <spamgard@blueyonder.co.uk>skrev
[snip]Christopher Kreuzer?jevind L?ng
Quotes from 'In the House of Tom Bombadil', 'Many Partings', 'The Great River' (Legolas on time), 'Lothlorien', and 'The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen' spring to mind. But there are so many!
This one, for example:
Together the Elf and the Dwarf entered Minas Tirith,
If Aragorn comes into his own, the people of the Wood shall bring him birds that sing and trees that do not die."<snip>
Those weren't really the sort of quote I was thinking about. They are OK, but not among my favourite. I was thinking more of something like this (just a few paragraphs later):
Gimli [on Men]: "It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise."
Legolas: "Yet seldom do they fail of their seed. And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked for. The deeds of Men will outlast us, Gimli."
Gimli: "And yet come to naught in the end but might-have-beens, I guess"
Legolas: "To that the Elves know not the answer."
And a bit later, Legolas tells of the moment he heard the seagulls:
"But deep in the hearts of all my kindred lies the sea-longing, which it is perilous to stir. Alas! for the gulls. No peace shall I have again under beech or under elm."
And later, Gandalf speaks to Aragorn on the slopes of Mindolluin:
"Verily this [the White Tree] is a sapling of the line of Nimloth the fair... Here it has lain hidden on the mountain, even as the race of Elendil lay hidden in the North. Yet the line of Nimloth is older far than your line, King Elessar."
And later still, Gandalf says to Treebeard:
"...in this age it may well prove that the kingdoms of Men shall outlast you, Fangorn my friend."
Christopher
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08/21/2004
