Most favorite one-liners

[Thingol]

My favorite quote (it's longer than a line) is the one from my signature, (it's from the Silm, not The Lord of the Rings) but I like this one alot also:

Lorien was slipping backward, like a bright ship masted with enchanted trees, sailing on to forgotten shores, while they sat helpless upon the margin of the grey and leafless world. Even as they gazed, the Silverlode passed out into the currents of the Great River, and their boats turned and began to speed southward. Soon the white form of the Lady was small and distant. She shone like a window of glass upon a far hill in the westering sun, or as a remote lake seen from a mountain: a crystal fallen in the lap of the land. Then it seemed to Frodo that she lifted her arms in a final farewell, and far but piercing-clear on the following wind came the sound of her voice singing. But now she sang in the ancient tongue of the Elves beyond the Sea, and he did not understand the words: fair was the music, but it did not comfort him.

I really love the Lorien chapters. The imagery and language is so beautiful, and it sets up the profound sadness and melancholy that persists throughout the rest of the book.

[ February 10, 2002: Message edited by: Thingol ]