The Fall of Númenor Quotes

“Men in Númenor are half-Elves (said Erendis), especially the high men; they are neither the one nor the other. The long life that they were granted deceives them, and they dally in the world, children in mind, until age finds them – and then many only forsake play out of doors for play in their houses. They turn their play into great matters and great matters into play. They would be craftsmen and loremasters and heroes all at once; and women to them are but fires on the hearth – for others to tend, until they are tired of play in the evening. All things were made for their service: hills are for quarries, river to furnish water or to turn wheels, trees for boards, women for their body’s need, or if fair to adorn their table and hearth; and children to be teased when nothing else is to do – but they would as soon play with their hounds’ whelps. To all they are gracious and kind, merry as larks in the morning (if the sun shines); for they are never wrathful if they can avoid it. Men should be gay, they hold, generous as the rich, giving away what they do not need. Anger they show only when they become aware, suddenly, that there are other wills in the world beside their own. Then they will be as ruthless as the seawind if anything dare to withstand them. Thus it is, Ancalimë, and we cannot alter it. For men fashioned Númenor: men, those heroes of old that they sing of – of their women we hear less, save that they wept when their men were slain. Númenor was to be a rest after war. But if they weary of rest and the plays of peace, soon they will go back to their great play, manslaying and war. Thus it is; and we are set here among them. But we need not assent. If we love Númenor also, let us enjoy it before they ruin it. We also are daughters of the great, and we have wills and courage of our own. Therefore do not bend, Ancalimë. Once bend a little, and they will bend you further until you are bowed down. Sink your roots into the rock, and face the wind, though it blow away all your leaves.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor

“Nonetheless for long it seemed to the Númenóreans that they prospered”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor

“many ages of Men unborn may pass ere that purpose is made known; and to you it will be revealed and not to the Valar.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor

“And the Doom of Men, that they should depart, was at first a gift of Ilúvatar. It became a grief to them only because coming under the shadow of Morgoth it seemed to them that they were surrounded by a great darkness, of which they were afraid;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor

“Bizimkini katbekat aşan bir marifetin ürünü olan nesneler hepimiz açısından büyük tehlike arz eder...”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor

“Nazgûl, yani Yüzüktayfları idi onlar artık ve Düşman'ın en dehşetengiz hizmetkârları sayılıyorlardı; nereye gitseler karanlığı da beraberlerinde götürüyorlardı, haykırdıkları vakit ölümün sesiyle ortalığı çınlatıyorlardı.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor

“Dünya saftı, dağlarsa yüksekti,
O Kadim Zamanlar'da düşüşünden önceki
Nargothrond'daki haşmetli kralların
Ve Gondolin'dekilerin, onlar ki şimdiye çoktan,
Göçtüler Batı Denizlerinin çok ötesine:
Gençti yeryüzü Durin'in Günü'nde.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Numenor

“Varlığımızı gelecek dönemlere sarkıtmaya yeltenemeyiz, aksi takdirde zihnimizde yarattığımız bir sanrı uğruna kendimizi bugünümüzden mahrum bırakmış oluruz.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Numenor

“Neticede o da (varlığının) kudretini başkalarının iradesi üzerinde hâkimiyet kurmak uğruna israf edecekti.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Numenor