The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

What he thought was the cause of Frodo’s sudden resolve and flight Aragorn did not say. The last words of Boromir he long kept secret.

wtf did he just do here…..

‘Let us go up on to this green hill!’ he said. Wearily they followed him, climbing the long slope,

Legolas just so excited to be around grass

I forget that they were rivals…

You speak evil of that which is fair beyond the reach of your thought, and only little wit can excuse you.’

‘I would cut off your head, beard and all, Master Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground,’ said Éomer. ‘He stands not alone,’ said Legolas, bending his bow and fitting an arrow with hands that moved quicker than sight. ‘You would die before your stroke fell.’

‘Come, you shall sit behind me, friend Gimli,’ said Legolas. ‘Then all will be well, and you need neither borrow a horse nor be troubled by one.’

‘Then are we not to see the merry young hobbits again?’ said Legolas.

Okay devastated

‘Whatever its name may be,’ said Háma, ‘here you shall lay it, if you would not fight alone against all the men in Edoras.’ ‘Not alone!’ said Gimli, fingering the blade of his axe,

Clearly in love with Legolas here

‘I will gladly go with you, if Legolas, my comrade, may ride beside us.’

But you comfort me, Gimli, and I am glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe.

‘Two!’ said Gimli, patting his axe. He had returned to his place on the wall. ‘Two?’ said Legolas. ‘I have done better, though now I must grope for spent arrows; all mine are gone. Yet I make my tale twenty at the least. But that is only a few leaves in a forest.’

‘Twenty-one!’ said Gimli. ‘Good!’ said Legolas. ‘But my count is now two dozen. It has been knife-work up here.’

‘Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,’ said Aragorn.

‘Ill enough,’ said Legolas, ‘but not yet hopeless, while we have you with us. Where is Gimli?’

Aragorn and Legolas are in love

I desired to tell Master Gimli that my tale is now thirty-nine.’

‘You have passed my score by one,’ answered Legolas. ‘But I do not grudge you the game, so glad am I to see you on your legs!’

Omgggg the reuniting happening here was biblical

In spite of his hurt the dwarf would not stay behind.

Legolas and Gimli were now riding together upon one horse; and they kept close beside Gandalf, for Gimli was afraid of the wood.

Do you cut down groves of blossoming trees in the springtime for firewood?

if we both return safe out of the perils that await us, we will journey for a while together.

Committing to journeying together forever once they save Helm's Deep <3

Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of strange places, and walk visible under the Sun.’

‘For not only the little life of Men is now endangered, but the life also of those things which you have deemed the matter of legend.

‘And what about your companions? What about Legolas and me?’ cried Gimli, unable to contain himself longer.

‘Any Elf that comes with you will be welcome,’ said Treebeard. ‘The friend I speak of is not an Elf,’ said Legolas; ‘I mean Gimli, Glóin’s son here.’

‘Strange it may seem,’ said Legolas; ‘but while Gimli lives I shall not come to Fangorn alone.

But they were alone, and Aragorn was far away, and Gandalf stood amid the ruin of Isengard and strove with Saruman,

their journey would be so different if he still had the fellowship with him <\3

even though he believed that Gandalf was gone, gone for ever into the shadow in Moria

omg….i forgot Frodo still thinks Gandalf is DEAD!

And here he was a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go.

HE IS JUST A YOUNG MAN!!! poor frodo

‘If we reach the Fire in that time, we’ll be lucky at this rate!’ he thought. ‘And we might be wanting to get back. We might!’

Frodo telling Sam not to save food for the way back because they won't survive </3

‘So there are Oliphaunts, and I have seen one. What a life! But no one at home will ever believe me. Well, if that’s over, I’ll have a bit of sleep.’

For if Boromir was then in peril and was slain, I must fear that all my companions perished too. And they were my kindred and my friends.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO THEY LITERALLY THINK THE FELLOWSHIP IS DEAD

But I have a deed to do, or to attempt, before I too am slain.

I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend:

And the memory of Boromir, of the dreadful change that the lure of the Ring had worked in him, was very present to his mind, when he looked at Faramir and listened to his voice: unlike they were, and yet also much akin.

and there must gardeners be in high honour.’ ‘Not all is well there,’ said Frodo, ‘but certainly gardeners are honoured.’

wondering if anywhere in the vastness of the nightlands his old companions walked or slept, or lay dead shrouded in mist.

I am bound, by solemn undertaking to the Council, to find a way or perish in the seeking.

All is lost. I tarried on the way. All is lost. Even if my errand is performed, no one will ever know. There will be no one I can tell. It will be in vain.’

maybe the last meal they would ever eat together.

And people will say: “Let’s hear about Frodo and the Ring!” And they’ll say: “Yes, that’s one of my favourite stories. Frodo was very brave, wasn’t he, dad?”

so deeply sad even worse they don't think they will survive this

they would have thought that they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.

gollum hater finds this paragraph unmoving

It’s your Sam calling. Don’t go

where I can’t follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!

And you are the last of all the Company. The errand must not fail.’

and by that more than by all other tokens Sam was convinced at last that Frodo had died and laid aside the Quest.

NOOOOOOOOOOO SO SAD

there’s someone loose hereabouts as is more dangerous than any other damned rebel that ever

walked since the bad old times,

Don’t trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.