The Children of Húrin Quotes

“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“I will not walk backward in life.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“False hopes are more dangerous than fears.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“He says that we have learned nearly all that we know from them, and have been made a nobler people; and he says that the Men that have lately come over the Mountains are hardly better than Orcs.'

That is true', answered Sador; 'true at least of some of us. But the up-climbing is painful, and from high places it is easy to fall low.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.'
But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“But to this Orc-work such a life as we lead has brought us. Lawless and fruitless all our deeds have been, serving only ourselves, and feeding hate in our hearts.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“Master of the Dark Shadow. For I also, Niniel, had my darkness, in which dear things were lost; but now I have overcome it, I deem.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

“Проклет да е Менегрот! Проклет да е и пътят, по който стъпваш! Вече всичко свърши. Сега идва нощта!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin