“Elrond’s house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness…. Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.”
From my grandfather to my father, this has come to me. They dreamt of the day when the Dwarves of Erebor would reclaim their homeland. There is no choice Balin. Not for me.
“A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
↳“Don’t you leave him! they said to me. Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon, and if any of those Black Riders try to stop him, they’ll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with.”
Flawless females of fiction that would put any male chauvinist to shame if only they were non-fictional || Éowyn (Lord of the Rings)
She had her moments, she might have been whiney with the whole Aragorn love story, but I have yet to find a more badass comeback than “I am no man” to a Nazgûl pretty much decided they’re gonna go ahead and kill you in a few seconds.
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