…But so our path is laid.
…But so our path is laid.
Book IV, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
Other The Two Towers Quotes
- Do not be hasty, that is my motto. - View Quote Details on Do not be hasty, that is my motto.
- Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
First name the four, the free peoples:
Eldest of all, the elf-children;
Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses;
Ent the earthborn, old as mountains;
Man the mortal, master of horses - View Quote Details on Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
First name… - It’s a pity that folk as talk about fighting the Enemy can’t let others do their bit in their own way without interfering. He’d be mighty pleased, if he could see you now. Think he’d got a new friend, he would. - View Quote Details on It’s a pity that folk as talk about fighting the…
- Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning? - View Quote Details on Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the… - The guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door. - View Quote Details on The guest who has escaped from the roof, will think…
- ‘For myself,” said Faramir, “I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace: Minas Anor again as of old, full of light, high and fair, beautiful as a queen among other queens. - View Quote Details on ‘For myself,” said Faramir, “I would see the White Tree…
- I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of strange places, and walk visible under the Sun. - View Quote Details on I have lived to see strange days. Long we have…
- We’re going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is all too likely that some will say at this point: “Shut the book now, dad; we don’t want to read any more.” - View Quote Details on We’re going on a bit too fast. You and I,…
- Oft evil will shall evil mar. - View Quote Details on Oft evil will shall evil mar.
- He had all the injured air of a liar suspected when for once he has told the truth, or part of it. - View Quote Details on He had all the injured air of a liar suspected…
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