The Treason of Isengard Quotes

“So Aragorn saw her for the first time in the light of day, and after she was gone he stood still, looking at the dark doors and taking little heed of other things.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“Eowyn sister of Eomer waits on the guests. Description of her, and of her love for Aragorn.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“he is the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the sun upon this Middle-earth”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“Entmark (for that is how they call the Forest)] Above Entmark is written Entwood.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“Poor Saruman!’ Gandalf adds, ‘what a fall for one so wise! I fear that [he started too late to make a success of wickedness >] he started in the race too late. He seems not to have the luck he needs in his new profession. He at least will never sit in the Dark Tower.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“I will add here, incidentally and irrelevantly, that another derivative from the same source is Nobottle (Northamptonshire), which my father allowed me to add to my map of the Shire made in 1943 (VI.107, item V) and which remains in that published in The Lord of the Rings, although at that time I was under the impression that the name meant that the village was so poor and remote that it did not even possess an inn.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“It is not perhaps mere chance that Orthanc which in Elvish means “a spike of rock” is in the tongue of Rohan “a machine”.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“Blood on blade and fire on hill, smoke in sky and tears on earth.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew. Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon, the foam was on the Sea, And by the strand of Tirion there grew a golden Tree. Beneath the stars of Evereve in Eldamar it shone,35 In Eldamar beside the walls of Elven Tirion. But far away and far away beyond the Shadow-meres Now long the golden leaves have grown upon the branching years. And Lórien, O Lórien! the river flows away And leaves are falling in the stream, and leaves are borne away; O Lórien, too long I dwell upon this Hither Shore And in a fading crown I twine the golden elanor. But if a ship I now should sing, what ship would come to me, What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a sea?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“though night must follow noon,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“The arrows of the orcs are bitter and fly straight.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“Already she appeared to him (since her refusal in the garden)29 as by men of later days elves at times are seen: present, and yet remote, a living vision of that which has already passed far down the streams of time.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“I doubt much if this Balrog has lain hid in the Misty Mountains – and I fear rather that he was sent by Sauron from Orodruin, the Mountain of Fire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“What is this?’ said one of the Elves, looking in wonder at Legolas. ‘By his raiment of green and brown [?he is an] Elf of the North. Since when have we taken our kindred prisoner, Hathaldir?’ ‘I am not a prisoner,’ said Legolas. ‘I am only showing the dwarf how to walk straight without the help of eyes.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“Only once before have I seen them from afar in waking life,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“In that case,’ said Glorfindel, ‘there are but two things for us to attempt: we may send the Ring West over Sea; or we may destroy it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“This passage was the product of emendation on the manuscript of the second version at different times, and in the result a strange confusion was produced.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

“I know of him, though we seldom meet. I am a rolling stone, and he is a gatherer of moss. Both have a work to do, but they do not help one another often.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Treason Of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2