volumina-vetustiora reblogged
volumina-vetustiora reblogged
Anonymous asked:
favourite quotation from Tolkien's works?
The one in Latin I reblogged today, but I have a few more:
'Despair, or folly?' said Gandalf. 'It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighted, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope '
Or when Elrond says:
Now at this last we must take a hard road, a road unforseen. There lies our hope, if hope it be. To walk into peril - to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire.
"desperatio, an stultitia?" Gandalfus dixit. "desperatio non est, quia desperatio tantum eis est qui finem ultra omne dubium vident. nos minime. sapientia est necessitatem cognoscere, omnibus aliis rationibus pensis, etsi pro stultitia appareat eis qui in falsa spe adhaerent."