I'm back with the rest of my Fellowship of the Ring quotes. I also forgot how incredibly sad Fellowship (the whole thing really) is. Not depressing though, I mean sad in the best of ways. Beautiful and uplifting. The sort of thing that leaves you staring at a wall for hours with a blank face, because there are no words, nor any facial expression that can convey what you feel. But somehow, you feel a little bigger than when you started.
Since I made this a challenge for no particular reason, I might as well make a new rule just for kicks.
1. Add the above image to your post.
2. Leave a link to your post around here somewhere, so I can come see (the eye of Goldenrod is watching).
3. List a beloved (or favourite) quote from each chapter in The Fellowship of the Ring.
4. Sing a song or dance a jig, and make plans to watch LOTR sometime in the near future.
5. Change rule 4 when you challenge your own followers.
And now for the quotes from Fellowship Book II (which is technically the same thing as LOTR Book II, for those of us who prefer the intended format of the book).
Chapter I: Many Meetings
"Almost it seemed that the words took shape, and visions of far lands and bright things that he had never yet imagined opened out before him; and the firelit hall became like a golden mist above the seas of foam that sighed upon the margins of the world."
Chapter II: The Council of Elrond*
"This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
Chapter III: The Ring Goes South
"[V]arious small belongings of his master's that Frodo had forgotten and Sam had stowed to bring them out in triumph when they were called for."
Chapter IV: A Journey in the Dark
"The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone
When Durin woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and ells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stopped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head."
Chapter V: The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass."
Chapter VI: Lothlórien
"Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him."
Chapter VII: The Mirror of Galadriel
"A lord of wisdom throned he sat,
swift in anger, quick to laugh;
an old man in a battered hat
who leaned upon a thorny staff."
Chapter VIII: Farewell to Lórien
"Then you may remember Galadriel, and catch a glimpse far off of Lórien, that you have seen only in our winter. For our spring and our summer are gone by, and they will never be seen on earth again save in memory."
Chapter IX: The Great River
"Upon great pedestals founded in the deep waters stood two great kings of stone: still with blurred eyes and crannied brows they frowned upon the North. The left hand of each was raised palm outwards in a gesture of warning; in each right hand there was an axe; upon each head there was a crumbling helm and crown. Great power and majesty they still wore, the silent wardens of a long-vanished kingdom."
Chapter X: The Breaking of the Fellowship
"Darkness lay there under the Sun. Fire glowed amid the smoke. Mount Doom was burning, and a great reek rising. Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. All hope left him."
*If you should like to pick two quotes from Council of Elrond, due to its length, I won't complain.
(Lest there should be any confusion or matter of rights and whatnot, all quotes in this post are from The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, unless otherwise mentioned. There may be slight errors, misspellings, or alternate punctuation in the quotes, and if you notice such, please inform me so that I can speedily remedy them. But I think the fact that I made this blog proves that I would never intentionally change something of Tolkien's in the transcribing of it.)
