Silmarillion Quotes

• Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wise, Hope

  "The Silmarillion". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1977.

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• War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Arrows, Towers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  May, Wonderful, Source

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Echoes, Voice, Dwelling

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• All that is gold does not glitter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Being Strong, Travel, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Children, Ocean, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Fate, Darkness

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• Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Lúthien for a time should be.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Sweet, Lying

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• For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Sorrow, Foundation

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• There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Firsts, Holy, Made

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Fire, Space

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Hands, Sea

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Shadow Of Death, Light, Joy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Fire, Support

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Evil, Broken, World

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sea, Forever, Shadow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

  Faramir

  War, Towers, Swiftness

  "Fictional character: Faramir". 'The Two Towers' ('The Lord of the Rings'), Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.

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