The Lost Road and Other Writings Quotes

“I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lost Road and Other Writings

“Of all the children of Finwë he is justly most renowned: for his valour was as a fire and yet as steadfast as the hills of stone; wise he was and skilled in voice and hand; troth and justice he loved and bore good will to all, both Elves and Men, hating Morgoth only; he sought not his own, neither power nor glory, and death was his reward.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road and Other Writings

“not least because it is the creation ultimately of one man, not a philologist, and is therefore something like a “human language bereft of the inconveniences due to too many successive cooks”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road: Volume 5 – The History of Middle-earth: The Silmarillion Manuscripts, Elvish Languages, and Númenor Legends

“Their bed was the heather and their roof the cloudy sky.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road: Volume 5 – The History of Middle-earth: The Silmarillion Manuscripts, Elvish Languages, and Númenor Legends

“Yellow flowers swung upon her branches like the hanging blossom of those trees Men now call Golden-rain;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road: Volume 5 – The History of Middle-earth: The Silmarillion Manuscripts, Elvish Languages, and Númenor Legends

“Pengolod the Wise of Gondolin,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road: Volume 5 – The History of Middle-earth: The Silmarillion Manuscripts, Elvish Languages, and Númenor Legends

“The Tree of Tongues (earlier form)”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road: Volume 5 – The History of Middle-earth: The Silmarillion Manuscripts, Elvish Languages, and Númenor Legends

“mjöl Fróða (‘Fróthi’s meal’) for ‘gold’.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road: Volume 5 – The History of Middle-earth: The Silmarillion Manuscripts, Elvish Languages, and Númenor Legends

“Thû > Gorthû”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road: Volume 5 – The History of Middle-earth: The Silmarillion Manuscripts, Elvish Languages, and Númenor Legends

“For the round is crooked and has no end but no escape; and the straight is true, but has an end within the world, and that is the fate of the Elves. But the fate of Men, they said, is neither round nor ended, and is not within the world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road: Volume 5 – The History of Middle-earth: The Silmarillion Manuscripts, Elvish Languages, and Númenor Legends

“Great numbers of the Gnomes, and of the Dark-elves, they took captive and led to Angband, and made thralls, forcing them to use their skill and knowledge in the service of Morgoth. They laboured without rest in his mines and forges, and torment was their wage.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road and Other Writings