#lament

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When evening in the Shire was grey his footsteps on the Hill were heard; before the dawn he went away on journey long without a word. From Wilderland to Western shore, from northern waste to southern hill, through dragon-lair and hidden door and darkling woods he walked at will. With Dwarf and Hobbit, Elves and Men, with mortal and immortal folk, with bird on bough and beast in den, in their own secret tongues he spoke. A deadly sword, a healing hand, a back that bent beneath its load; a trumpet-voice, a burning brand, a weary pilgrim on the road. A lord of wisdom throned he sat, swift in anger, quick to laugh; an old man in a battered hat who leaned upon a thorny staff. He stood upon the bridge alone and Fire and Shadow both defied; his staff was broken on the stone, in Khazad-dûm his wisdom died.


J.R.R. Tolkien


#gandalf #j-r-r-tolkien #jrr-tolkien #lament #lord-of-the-rings

He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey. He sat upon his noble throne shining like the dawn. His sword flashed like the brightest star. He led our people well. Yet here and now he lays in blood pierced with arrows. He was the friend of many knights. He loved the warrior games. His heart was won by a lady fair for marriage they did wait. A kindly prince, his duty carried him to another's bed. And on her death true love returned, finally they wed. He felt the grief of children lost to murder and to pain. I was the youngest of his blood. I'll never be the same. Here lays my father and my lord. I know not what to say. Except my father and my lord was slain here on this day. Here lays my father and my lord. I know not what to say. Except my father and my lord was slain here on this day….


Laurel A. Rockefeller


#dirge #kendric #king #knight #lament

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.


Sean O'Casey


#always #completely #ear #enchanting #enjoyable

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.


Sophocles


#dead #evils #gold #lamentation #less

Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.


Douglas Hurd


#believe #children #country #despite #education

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.


Philip Yancey


#whine #change

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.


Elie Wiesel


#faith #god #lamentation #night #religion

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.


Nicole Richie


#illegal #immorality #lament #life #true

it was his own grief turned magically to song


J.K. Rowling


#grief

Go, go, magic clover.


Maggie Stiefvater


#deception