Lyta, thank you for your post! I love that quote from RotK, and I had completely forgotten about it when I started the thread. Tolkien does indeed express much better than I can exactly what I mean.
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until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
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The passage itself is exquisitely worded.
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Then came there from the south of the city the people of the Fountain, and Ecthelion was their lord, and silver and diamonds were their delight; and swords very long and bright and pale did they wield . . .
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