Proverbs, Adages, Aphorisms, Saws, Wise Sayings & Clichés

[Guinevere]

Ah, I remember that one ... I wondered if I should put it on my list of proverbs. It is somewhere in the Silmarillion.... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] *searching*

Ha! found it! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] It's in the chapter "Of Men" in the narrative

West, North and South the children of Men spread and wandered, and their joy was the joy of the morning before the dew is dry, when every leaf is green.But the dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise;and now the time drew on to the great wars of the powers of the North, when Noldor and Sindar and Men strove against the hosts of Morgoth Bauglir, and went down in ruin.