My fav Tolkien quote is from the Lays of Beleriand's poem "The Lay of Leithian.",
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There once and long and long ago, before the sun and moon we know, were lit to sail above the world. When first the shaggy woods unfurled and shadowy shapes did stare and roam beneath the dark and starry dome that hung above the dawn of earth, the silences and silver mirth had shaken the rocks were ringing, the birds of Melian were singing, the first to sing in mortal lands the nightengales with her own hands, she fed that fay of garments grey and long and dark her tresses lay, beneath her silver girdles seat and down unto her silver feet.
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I also liked the part,
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...enchanted moments such as these from gardens of the lord of sleep, where fountains play and shadows creep...
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That one makes me sleepy even reading it! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]