Gondolin Inc Quotes & Sayings

I will not debate with you Dark Elf. By the swords of the Noldor alone are your sunless woods defended. Your freedom to wander there wild you owe to my kin and but for them long since you would have laboured in thraldom in the pits of Angband. And here I am King and whether you will it or will it not my doom is law. This choice is given to you: abide here or to die here and so also for your son. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Women offer a different sort of salvation, more immediate and fulfilling. They don't put off their love for a distant, ill-defined eternity but make a gift of it in the here and now. — Joe Hill

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. — William Gibson

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing. — Lou Doillon

Whatever it takes, prove to yourself right now, that you deserve the wildest of dreams that you could ever imagine. BUT ... Only if you are willing to bleed, sweat and work for it. — Joel Brown

Compassion is a fundamental principle of meditation. Meditation is not a narcissistic, self-interested path. It provides the foundation for love, integrity, compassion, respect and sensitivity (Feldman, 1998, p.2). — Christina Feldman

One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy. — Christopher Moore

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked. — Asia Argento

Hope had been beaten to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier not to feel. — Shannon Hale

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world. — T. S. Eliot

Then Maeglin bowed low and took Turgon for lord and king, to do all his will; but thereafter he stood silent and watchful, for the bliss and splendour of Gondolin surpassed all that he had imagined from the tales of his mother, and he was amazed by the strength of the city and the hosts of its people, and the many things strange and beautiful that he beheld. Yet to none were his eyes more often drawn than to Idril the King's daughter, who sat beside him; for she was golden as the Vanyar, her mother's kindred, and she seemed to him as the sun from which all the King's hall drew its light. — J.R.R. Tolkien