Finally, a few quotes which help me to explain why I love LOTR so much. Ironically, the quotes comes from ROTK:
'Then, as a sweet rain will pass down a wind of spring and the sun will shine out the clearer, his tears ceased, and his laughter welled up, and laughing he sprang from his bed.
'How do I feel?' he cried. 'Well, I don't know how to say it. I feel, I feel' - he waved his arms in the air - I fell like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!'
Sam, waking up after the Ring has been destroyed.
'And when Sam heard that he laughed aloud for sheer delight, and he stood up and cried: 'O great glory and splendour! And all my wishes have come true!' And then he wept.'
'Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the foresaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.'
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Just to let everyone know, I'm going back to Aloof Elf Princess as my FOD - this will still be my main diary, but I'm going back home!
Quote of the day: 'You can't go walking in the Black land in naught but your skin, Mr Frodo.' Sam Gamgee
'Then, as a sweet rain will pass down a wind of spring and the sun will shine out the clearer, his tears ceased, and his laughter welled up, and laughing he sprang from his bed.
'How do I feel?' he cried. 'Well, I don't know how to say it. I feel, I feel' - he waved his arms in the air - I fell like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!'
Sam, waking up after the Ring has been destroyed.
'And when Sam heard that he laughed aloud for sheer delight, and he stood up and cried: 'O great glory and splendour! And all my wishes have come true!' And then he wept.'
'Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the foresaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.'
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Just to let everyone know, I'm going back to Aloof Elf Princess as my FOD - this will still be my main diary, but I'm going back home!
Quote of the day: 'You can't go walking in the Black land in naught but your skin, Mr Frodo.' Sam Gamgee