The War of the Jewels Quotes

“Ecthelion must be similarly from Aegthelion. Latter element is a derivative of √stel 'remain firm'. The form with prefix 'sundóma', estel, was used in Q{uenya} and S{indarin} for 'hope' – sc. a temper of mind, steady, fixed in purpose, and difficult to dissuade and unlikely to fall into despair or abandon its purpose. The unprefixed stel- gave [? S verb] thel 'intend, mean, purpose, resolve, will'. So Q ? þelma 'a fixed idea,..., will.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“It is not surprising that the Edain, when they learned Sindarin, and to a certain extent Quenya also, found it difficult to discern whether words and names containing the element el referred to the stars or to the Elves. This is seen in the name Elendil, which became a favourite name among the Edain, but was meant to bear the sense ‘Elf-friend’. Properly in Quenya it meant ‘a lover or student of the stars’, and was applied to those devoted to astronomical lore. ‘Elf-friend’ would have been more correctly represented by Quen(den)dil or Eldandil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“Eöl found Írith,34 the sister of King Turgon, astray in the wild near his dwelling, and he took her to wife by force: a very wicked deed in the eyes of the Eldar.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“Valar valuvar “the will of the Valar will be done”;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“Telperion: V Ibrīniðilpathānezel. Laurelin: V Tulukhedelgorūs. Ithil ‘moon’: V Phanaikelūth. Said to mean ‘bright mirror’. Anar ‘Sun’: V Aþāraigas. Said to mean ‘appointed heat’.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“The Eldar,’ he says, ‘now take the name to signify “horn-blowing” or “horn-blower”; but to the Valar it had no such meaning.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“*gay- ‘astound, make aghast’,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“Fëanor indeed, before the growth of his discontent, is said to have learned more of this tongue than any others before his time, and his knowledge must at any rate have far surpassed the little that is now recorded; but what he knew he kept to himself, and he refused to transmit it even to the Lambengolmor because of his quarrel with the Valar.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“The Fëanorian letters were always called tengwar in Quenya, though sarati remained the name for the Rumilian letters.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“Not for communication at a distance, for the Dwarves were short-sighted,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“The Orcs themselves adopted it, for the fact that it referred to terror and detestation delighted them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“The great Dwarves despised the Petty-dwarves, who were (it is said) the descendants of Dwarves who had left or been driven out from the Communities, being deformed or undersized, or slothful and rebellious. But they still acknowledged their kinship and resented any injuries done to them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“The Exiles heard of the Dwarves first from the Sindar, and when using the Sindarin tongue naturally adopted the already established names. But later in Eastern Beleriand the Ñoldor came into independent relations with the Dwarves of Eryd Lindon, and they adapted the name Khazâd anew for use in Quenya, giving it the form Kasar, pl. Kasari or Kasāri.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“They also often referred to the Dwarves as a race by the name Dornhoth ‘the Thrawn Folk’, because of their stubborn mood as well as bodily toughness.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“The adjective naug ‘dwarf(ed), stunted’, however, was not used by itself for one of the Khazâd. The word used was Nogoth, pl. Noegyth, class-plural Nogothrim (as an occasional equivalent of Naugrim).”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“The name (in the plural) that the Dwarves gave to themselves was Khazâd, and this the Sindar rendered as they might in the terms of their own speech, giving it the form *chaðǭd > *chaðaud > Hadhod. (Note 22, p. 412) Hadhod, Hadhodrim was the name which they continued to use in actual intercourse with the Dwarves;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“The Elf-friends (Note 19, p. 412) were sometimes called by the Loremasters Núnatani (S Dunedain), ‘Western Men’, a term made to match Dúnedhil, which was a name for all the Elves of Beleriand, allied in the War (see p. 378).”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“In the ‘peaceful days’ before the return of Morgoth and Ungoliant, when Doriath’s north borders were the mountains of Fuin (not yet evil), the West – East road passed over the Esgalduin by a bridge outside the later fence of Melian. This stone-bridge, the Esgaliant or Iant Iaur (old bridge) was still in existence,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“For the Eldar never used any poison, not even against their most cruel enemies, beast, ork, or man; and they were filled with shame and horror that Eöl should have meditated this evil deed.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“For Eöl was said to be a ‘Dark Elf, a term then applied to any Elves who had not been willing to leave Middle-earth – and were then (before the history and geography had been organized) imagined as wandering about, and often ill-disposed towards the ‘Light-Elves’. But it was also sometimes applied to Elves captured by Morgoth and enslaved and then released to do mischief among the Elves. I think this latter idea should be taken up. It would explain much about Eöl and his smithcraft.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“Dírhavel they say perished in the last raid of the sons of Fëanor upon the Havens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“this lay was the work of a Mannish poet, Dírhavel, who lived at the Havens in the days of Eärendel and there gathered all the tidings and lore that he could of the House of Hador, whether among Men or Elves, remnants and fugitives of Dorlómin, of Nargothrond, or of Doriath.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“this day is now old in evil. A new day is needed.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“A strange folk are ye,’ he said. ‘Now cold, now hot. First wrath, then ruth.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“Third time shall thrive best!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“Grievance indeed! This is not a new fashion in headgear for the Moot. I come here with wounds new-dressed.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“Almost,’ she said. ‘I am spent utterly. I shall go with the sun. They are lost.’ She clutched at his cloak. ‘Little time is left,’ she said. ‘If you know, tell me! How did she find him?’ But Húrin did not answer, and he sat beside the stone with Morwen in his arms; and they did not speak again.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“and he cursed the pitiless land: ‘hard as the hearts of Elves and Men’.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“Echoriad: the Encircling Mountains about Gondolin.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels

“we may hear news.’ ‘Or bow-strings,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels