The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

I did not hinder it, for generous deed should not be checked by cold counsel.

nuncheon,

‘Twenty-nine!’ said the lad and whistled. ‘Why, you are quite old!

Bro cooked him

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.’

He sat for a moment half dreaming, listening to the noise of water, the whisper of dark trees, the crack of stone, and the vast waiting silence that brooded behind all sound.

‘Then tie me on to the back of one, or let me hang on a stirrup, or something,’

‘Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,’ said Denethor. ‘Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs?

Go now, and die in what way seems best to you.

goals

beleaguered

‘My body is broken. I go to my fathers.

Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

Death in the morning and at day’s ending lords took and lowly.

Why should we wish to live longer? Why should we not go to death side by side?’

The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.’

doggrel,

‘Then in the name of the king, go and find some old man of less lore and more wisdom who keeps some in his house!’ cried Gandalf.

But these evils can be amended, so strong and gay a spirit is in him.

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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.’

It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep.

‘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.’

Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

At its head there rode a tall and evil shape, mounted upon a black horse, if horse it was; for it was huge and hideous, and its face was a frightful mask, more like a skull than a living head, and in the sockets of its eyes and in its nostrils there burned a flame.

Get you gone, for your embassy is over and death is near to you.

For it seemed best to him to die soon

almost gay it seemed to be casting off at last all doubt and care and fear.

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.’

when I think of that Stinker I get so hot I could shout.’

On, on they went, and he bent all his will to draw his breath and to make his legs keep going; and yet to what evil end he toiled and endured he did not dare to think.

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Nearer and nearer it drew, looming blacker, like the oncoming of a wall of night at the last end of the world.

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.’

I do not desire the speech of living men.’

so true

he grew gayer as he looked at them.

when other people look at me

it was after all the first of November and the fag-end of autumn.

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