Great Throughts Treasury

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Related Quotes

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

But no living man am I You look upon a woman. Owyn I am, Omunds daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.

Children | Control | Good | Government | Parents | Slavery | Government |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

And as the captains gazed south to the Land of Mordor, it seemed to them that, black against the pall of cloud, there rose a huge shape of shadow, impenetrable, lightning-crowned, filling all the sky. Enormous it reared above the world, and stretched out towards them a vast threatening hand, terrible but impotent: for even as it leaned over them, a great wind took it, and it was all blown away, and passed; and then a hush fell.

Children | Debt | Parents | Work | Child |