There lies his crown in waters deep

One day…

Fire was not made to be held in human skin.

O’ Death

“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”

Farewell, Master Burglar.

Faramir, The Two Towers

I bid you all a very fond farewell.

"The world is not in your maps and books. It’s out there.”

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising  I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.  To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking:  Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

Forgive me.

∟ We also are daughters of the great, and we have wills and courage of our own. Therefore do not bend, Ancalimë. Once bend a little, and they will bend you further until you are bowed down. Sink your roots into the rock, and face the wind, though it blow away all your leaves.

Angels who walk up to the Pearly Gates (laughing at jokes they learnt from humans), push on them, find them locked. Angels who try to fly for the first time in millenia and find their wings have atrophied. Angels so busy partying with mortals that they don’t hear the last trumpet calling them home.

HOBBIT MEME [3/3] dwarves ↳ fíli

And I could see for miles, miles, miles…