The Peoples of Middle-Earth Quotes

“He who begins with the hoe should wield it to the row’s end.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“and he brought back from the war as booty a wound, and a sword, and a woman.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“Not even the Seeing Stones of the craftsmen of old could wholly unite those that were sundered, and they and the masters that could make them were few.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“from the nature of speech, which is fully living only when it is born, but when the union of the thought and the sound is fallen into old custom, and the two are no longer perceived apart, then already the word is dying and joyless,2 the sound awaiting some new thought, and the thought eager for some new-patterned raiment of sound.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“Morinehtar and Rómestámo.28 Darkness-slayer and East-helper. Their task was to circumvent Sauron: to bring help to the few tribes of Men that had rebelled from Melkor-worship, to stir up rebellion”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“Who was sometimes called Návatar, and the Dwarves Aulëonnar ‘children of Aulë’.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“its volcano Orodruin and its eruptions – which were not made by Sauron but were a relic of the devastating works of Melkor in the long First Age.)”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“When they were re-embodied they could remain in Valinor, or return to Middle-earth if their home had been there.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“but according to their own legends and histories the Folk of Hador had long dwelt during their westward migration by the shores of a sea too wide to see across; it had no tides, but was visited by great storms.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“Thus Quenya áya meant rather ‘awe’ than ‘fear’, profound reverence and sense of one’s own littleness in the presence of things or persons majestic and powerful. The adjective aira was the nearest equivalent to ‘holy’; and the noun airë to ‘sanctity’. Airë was used by the Eldar as a title of address to the Valar and the greater Máyar. Varda would be addressed as Airë Tári.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“(Her kin were devoted to Aulë, who counselled her father to take no part in the rebellion. ‘It will in the end only lead Fëanor and all your children to death.’)”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“A note is appended to Aulendur: ‘Servant of Aulë’: sc. one who was devoted to that Vala. It was applied especially to those persons, or families, among the Ñoldor who actually entered Aulë’s service, and who in return received instruction from him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“When Aragorn, descended in long line from Elros, wedded Arwen in the third union of Men and Elves, the lines of all the Three Kings of the High Elves (Eldar), Ingwë, Finwë, and Olwë and Elwë were united and alone preserved in Middle-earth.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“but the lore of the Eldar did not depend on perishable records, being stored in the vast houses of their minds.23”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“For Oromë a name had been made in Primitive Eldarin (recalling the sound of his great horn) of which Oromë was the Quenya form, though in Sindarin it had become Araw, and by the Sindar he was later more often called (Aran) Tauron ‘the (king) forester’. Manwë and Varda they knew only by the names ‘Elder King’ and ‘Star-queen’: Aran Einior and Elbereth. Melkor they called Morgoth ‘the Black Enemy’, refusing to use the Sindarin form of Melkor: Belegûr ‘he that arises in might’, save (but rarely) in a deliberately altered form Belegurth ‘Great Death’. These names Tauron, Aran Einior, Elbereth, and Morgoth the Ñoldor adopted and used when speaking Sindarin.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“the noble and generous spirit (órë) of the Vanyar,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“Its speakers generally called it Westron (actually Adûni, and in Sindarin Annúnaid).”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“The Enedhwaith (or Central Wilderness) was shared by the North and South Kingdoms, but was never settled by Númenóreans owing to the hostility of the Gwathuirim (Dunlendings), except in the fortified town and haven about the great bridge over the Greyflood at Tharbad. [The name Gwathuirim of the Dunlendings has not occurred before.]”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“Dark Elves’ or ‘Elves of Darkness’ was used by them, but in no way implied any evil, or subordination to Morgoth; it referred only to ignorance of the ‘light of Aman’ and included the Sindar.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“Even in the Shire in the Third Age, where Elves were more often to be met than in other regions where Hobbits dwelt or had dwelt, most of the Shire-folk would have no dealings with them. ‘They wander in Middle-earth,’ they said, ‘but their minds and hearts are not there.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“They were called ‘halflings’; but this refers to the normal height of men of Númenórean descent and of the Eldar (especially those of Ñoldorin descent), which appears to have been about seven of our feet.54”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“To the astonishment of Elves and other Men they ate funguses with pleasure, many of which looked to others ugly and dangerous; some kinds which they specially liked they caused to grow near their dwellings. The Eldar did not eat these things.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“But of these ancient times only one name was in the Third Age preserved: Durin, the name they gave to the prime ancestor of the Longbeards and by which he was known to Elves and Men. (It appears to have been simply a word for ‘king’ in the language of the Men of the North of the Second Age.)”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“No Dwarf would ever mount a horse willingly, nor did any ever harbour animals, not even dogs.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“These things the Dwarves amended in return for one great service that Men could offer. They were tamers of beasts and had learned the mastery of horses, and many were skilled and fearless riders.29”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“Men became the chief providers of food, as herdsmen, shepherds, and land-tillers, which the Dwarves exchanged for work as builders, roadmakers, miners, and the makers of things of craft, from useful tools to weapons and arms and many other things of great cost and skill. To the great profit of the Dwarves.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“Thus there grew up in those regions the economy, later characteristic of the dealings of Dwarves and Men (including Hobbits):”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“Now the Common Speech, when written at all, had from its beginning been expressed in the Fëanorian Script.9 Only occasionally and in inscriptions not written with pen or brush did some of the Elves of Sindarin descent use the Runes of Daeron,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“The Longbeard Dwarves therefore adopted the Runes, and modified them for their own uses (especially the expression of Khuzdul); and they adhered to them even far into the Third Age, when they were forgotten by others except the loremasters of Elves and Men. Indeed it was generally supposed by the unlearned that they had been invented by the Dwarves, and they were widely known as ‘dwarf-letters’.8”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe

“They had, it is said, a complex pictographic or ideographic writing or carving of their own. But this they kept resolutely secret.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth: The Capstone High Fantasy Chronicle of Tolkien's Epic Mythology and Universe