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Old 06-13-2003, 11:45 PM   #39
Corwyn Celesil
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There are small lines here and there that I love, such as the description of Aragorn when he died: "Then a great beauty was revealed in him, so that all who after came there looked on him in wonder, for they saw that the grace of his youth, and valour of his manhood, and the wisdom and majesty of his age were blended together. And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world."

And Legolas' song:
"To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, West away, the round sun is falling,
Gray ship, gray ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,
In Eresséa, in Elven home that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!"

But some of my most favorite parts are from Tolkien's lesser-known books. My very favorite has to be the description of the houses of Gondolin, which is too lengthy to put here, but which you can find in The Fall of Gondolin (unfortunately, I do not remember which book it is from).

I do not like the Narn i-Hin Hurin-the Tale of the Children of Hurin, but I love the story of Beleg Strongbow and how Turin mourned him: "'Twas Turin that towering on the tarn's margin, up high o'er the head of the hushed water now falling faintly, let flare and echo a song of sorrow and sad splendour, the dirge of Beleg's deathless glory. There wondrous wove he words enchanted, the woods and water waked and answered, the rocks were wrung with ruth for Beleg."

Well, I could go on, but to sum up, nearly every word, every line of The Silmarillion and The Lays of Beleriand are full of enchantment.
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