tolkien
The Lord of the Rings is one of those things: if you like you do: if you don't, then you boo!
| Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. |
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| Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? ... |
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| That was "Gil Galad" from The Fellowship of the Ring |
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| But long ago he rode away, and where he dwelleth none can say; for into darkness fell his star in Mordor where the shadows are. |
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| were mirrored in his silver shield. |
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| His sword was long, his lance was keen, his shining helm afar was seen; the countless stars of heaven's field |
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| Gil-Galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea. |
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| I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. |
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| with her anger to whatever lands he might come, and to thwart him in all ways that she could. |
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| Her pride was unwilling to return, a defeated suppliant for pardon; but now she burned with desire to follow Fëanor |
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| I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. |
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| in black speech is "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them" |
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| Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul |
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| On the holy mountain hear in witness and our vow remember, Manwë and Varda! |
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| Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth. |
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| death we will deal him ere Day's ending, woe unto world's end! Our word hear thou, |
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| finding keepeth or afar casteth a Silmaril. This swear we all: |
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| shall defend him from Fëanor, and Fëanor's kin, whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh, |
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| neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread nor danger, not Doom itself, |
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