lotr meme – seven places (2/7) ↬ Minas Tirith
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The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
Fangirl Challenge [3/10 movies] The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
”I don’t want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can’t escape is even worse.”
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
He ceased, but at once Boromir stood up, tall and proud, before them. ‘Give me leave, Master Elrond,’ said he, ‘first to say more of Gondor; for verily from the land of Gondor I am come. And it would be well for all to know what passes there. For few, I deem, know of our deeds, and therefore guess little of their peril, if we should fail at last.
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.
how do you pick up the threads of an old life? how do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand…
t h e r e i s n o g o i n g b a c k .
Sing and be glad, all ye children of the West, for your King shall come again, and he shall dwell among you all the days of your life.
Such is of 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.