by A#minor » July 19th, 2008, 2:10 pm
I've finished it finally. I've just been reading bits and pieces here and there before bed in between reading 3 or 4 other novels.
Here are some of my favorite passages or just phrases that caught my eye:
Line 2646- The silences were sudden shivered to silver fragments.
Line 3133- Each star there stared in stony night radiant, glistering cold and white.
Line 3230-
One morning as asleep she lay
Upon the moss, as though the day
too bitter were for gentle flower
to open in a sunless hour,
Beren arose and kissed her hair,
and wept, and softly left her there.
Line 3250-
His silver armies on the green
his horses white, his lances keen;
his helmets tall of steel were hewn,
his shields were shining as the moon.
There trumpets sang both long and loud
and challenge rang unto the cloud.
Line 3263- ...till in confusion vast the stars were choked.
Line 3576- ...and Ringil drew like ice that gleameth cold and blue, his sword devised of elvish skill to pierce the flesh with deadly chill.
Line 3605-3608
...the mighty foot pale Ringil clave
about the heel, and black the blood
gushed as from smoking found in flood.
Halt goes for ever from that stroke
great Morgoth...
Line 4183- ...together fled they, by the beat affrighted of their flying feet.
"My brain and this world don't fit each other, and there's an end of it!" - G.K. Chesterton