The Shaping of Middle-Earth Quotes

“The Silmarils are Eorclanstánas (also treated as an Old English noun with plural Silmarillas). There are several different forms of this Old English word: eorclan-, eorcnan-, and eorcan- from which is derived the 'Arkenstone' of the Lonely Mountain. The first element may be related to Gothic airkns, 'holy'. With middangeard line 37 cf. my father's note in Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings, in A Tolkien Compass, p. 189: 'The sense is ''the inhabited lands of (Elves and) Men'', envisaged as lying between the Western Sea and that of the Far East (only known in the West by rumour). Middle-Earth is a modern alteration of medieval middel-erde from Old English middan-geard'.”
― Christopher Tolkien, The Shaping of Middle-Earth

“For a while his Orcs and Dragons breeding again in dark places troubled and affrighted the world, as in far places they do yet;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Shaping Of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together With the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map – Epic Legends of Valinor, Beleriand, and the First Age

“For a while his Orcs and Dragons breeding again in dark places troubled and affrighted the world,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Shaping Of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together With the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map – Epic Legends of Valinor, Beleriand, and the First Age

“With this sword he thought to avenge the death of Beleg the Bowman,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Shaping Of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together With the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map – Epic Legends of Valinor, Beleriand, and the First Age

“Of fate, or the magic of the Silmaril that he bore to his torment, he was not stayed by the spells of Melian,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Shaping Of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together With the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map – Epic Legends of Valinor, Beleriand, and the First Age

“Ungoliant’s poisonous lips”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Shaping Of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together With the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map – Epic Legends of Valinor, Beleriand, and the First Age

“He is to bid Turgon prepare for battle against Morgoth; for Ylmir will turn the hearts of the Valar to forgive the Gnomes and send them succour. If Turgon will do this, the battle will be terrible, but the race of Orcs will perish and will not in after ages trouble Elves and Men.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Shaping Of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals, Together With the Earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map – Epic Legends of Valinor, Beleriand, and the First Age