The Fall Of Gondolin Quotes
"Evil have I brought upon the Flower of the Plain in despite of Ulmo, and now he leaveth it to wither in the fire."
"Fight not against doom, O my children! Seek ye who may safety in flight, if perhaps there be time yet."
"If I am king, obey my behests, and dare not to parley further with my commands."
"Who now shall fear the Balrogs for all their terror?"
"Sad too is the stubbornness of those we love – yet it was a valiant fault."
"Behold, the tower leapt into a flame and in a stab of fire it fell, for the dragons crushed the base of it and all who stood there."
"Now are they in the southward city and meet but scattered bands of plunderers who fly before them; yet do they find fire and burning everywhere for the ruthlessness of that enemy."
"Tuor would not let them bear away aught save a little food."
"She herself would bide, said she, nor seek to live after her lord."
"Glad is Tuor when all have passed the entrance and his fear lightens."
"Now are they without much hope of further life beyond the hills, for how shall any slip from the hand of Melko?"
"For the maids and women of the Gondothlim were as fair as the sun and as lovely as the moon and brighter than the stars."
"Indeed by the luck of the Valar only can all the folk have got therein unspied of the Orcs."
"Tuor said that he would not again see those streets, ‘for Gondolin is no more.’"
"But the shield was of a shape strange to Tuor’s eyes, for it was long and tapering; and its field was blue, in the midst of which was wrought an emblem of a white swan’s wing."
"Then Tuor spoke, and his voice rang as a challenge in the roof: ‘By this token I will take these arms unto myself, and upon myself whatsoever doom they bear.’"
"But in the taking of those arms a change came upon Tuor son of Huor, and his heart grew great within him."
"Fear not my wrath, though long have I called to thee unheard; and setting out at last thou hast tarried on thy journey hither."
"That which thy heart hath ever sought, answered Ulmo: ‘to find Turgon, and look upon the hidden city.’"
"But behold! in the armour of Fate there is ever a rift, and in the walls of Doom a breach, until the full-making, which ye call the End."
"Therefore, though in the days of this darkness I seem to oppose the will of my brethren, the Lords of the West, that is my part among them, to which I was appointed ere the making of the World."
"Yet Doom is strong, and the shadow of the Enemy lengthens; and I am diminished, until in Middle-earth I am become now no more than a secret whisper."
"The waters that run westward wither, and their springs are poisoned, and my power withdraws from the land; for Elves and Men grow blind and deaf to me because of the might of Melkor."
"The last hope alone is left, the hope that they have not looked for and have not prepared. And that hope lieth in thee; for so I have chosen."
"For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marvelling that they gave life so freely of which on earth they had so little."
"But it is not for thy valour only that I send thee, but to bring into the world a hope beyond thy sight, and a light that shall pierce the darkness."
"Go now, lest the Sea devour thee! For Ossë obeys the will of Mandos, and he is wroth, being a servant of the Doom."
"But if I escape the Doom, what words shall I say unto Turgon?"
"Speak and fear not! And thereafter do as thy heart and valour lead thee."
"Though in the days of this darkness I seem to oppose the will of my brethren, the Lords of the West, that is my part among them, to which I was appointed ere the making of the World."
"Lo! thy coming was set in our books of wisdom, and it has been written that there would come to pass many great things in the homes of the Gondothlim whenso thou faredst hither."
"Then the sun rose of the second day and the sons of the Valar prevailed, and all the dragons were destroyed save two alone; and they fled into the East."
"The lies that he sowed in the hearts of Men and Elves do not die and cannot all be slain by the Gods, but live on and bring much evil even to this later day."
"Thus spoke the prophecy of Mandos, which he declared in Valmar at the judgement of the Gods, and the rumour of it was whispered among all the Elves of the West."
"For a while his Orcs and his Dragons breeding again in dark places affrighted the world, and in sundry regions do so yet; but ere the End all shall perish by the valour of mortal Men."
"But ever as the ages drew on and the Elf-folk faded on the Earth, they would still set sail at eve from our Western shores; as still they do, when now there linger few anywhere of their lonely companies."