Sauron Defeated Quotes

“Contains very old version (in Adunaic) which is good – in so far as it is just as much different (in inclusion and omission and emphasis) as would be probable in the supposed case: (a) Mannish tradition (b) Elvish tradition (c) Mixed Dúnedanic tradition”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“Men (the Followers or Second Kindred) came second, but it is guessed that in the first design of God they were destined (after tutelage) to take on the governance of all the Earth, and ultimately to become Valar, to ‘enrich Heaven’, Ilúve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“But they believe he has under him Powers (Valar), some at his special command, some residing in the world for its immediate government. These though good and servants of God are inexorable, and ……. hostile in a sense. They do not pray to them but they fear and obey them (if ever any contact occur). Some are Valandili (Lovers of the Powers).]”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“The Eledâi they were named in their own tongue of old, but by the Eruhîn they were called Nimrî, the Shining Ones,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“But Avallondē and Nūmenōrē that stood on either side of the great rent were also destroyed; and they foundered and are no more. And the Avalāi thereafter had no local habitation on earth, nor is there any place more where memory of an earth without evil is preserved;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“and when the wind was in the west it seemed to many that it was filled with a fragrance, fleeting but sweet, heart-stirring, as of flowers that bloom for ever in undying meads and have no names on mortal shores.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“And Eru does not punish without benefit; nor are his mercies without sternness. For we (you say) are unpunished and dwell ever in bliss; and so it is that we do not die, but we cannot escape, and we are bound to this world, never again to leave it, till all is changed. And you (you murmur) are punished, and so it is that ye die, but ye escape and leave the world and are not bound thereto. Which therefore of us should envy the other?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“they were busy to contrive ships that should rise above the waters of the world and hold to the imagined seas. But they achieved only ships that would sail in the air of breath. And these ships, flying, came also to the lands of the new world, and to the East of the old world;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“But the mortal warriors that had set foot upon the Land of the Gods were buried under fallen hills; there it is said they lie imprisoned in the Caves of the Forgotten until the day of Doom and the Last Battle.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“I’ve got a very Briny Notion To drink myself to sleep. It seldom progressed further, and never got beyond: Bring me my bowl, my magic potion! Tonight I’m diving deep. down! down! down! Down where the dream-fish go.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“I am full of sovereign remedies.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“Goldilocks was only five years old, for in this Frodo’s foretelling had made a slight error, and she came after Pippin.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“Nazgûl shape at the door. Frodo is caught in the fire-chamber and cannot get out! Here we all end together, said the Ring Wraith. Frodo is too weary and lifeless to say nay. You first, said a voice, and Sam (with Sting?) stabs the Black Rider from behind. Frodo and Sam escape and flee down mountain-side.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue

“Then suddenly a new thought arose – not from outside – a thought born inside himself: he would keep the Ring himself, and be master of all. Frodo King of Kings. Hobbits should rule (of course he would not let down his friends) and Frodo rule hobbits. He would make great poems and sing great songs, and all the earth should blossom, and all should be bidden to his feasts.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four – An Enthralling Study of LOTR's Writing with Unpublished Epilogue