The Fellowship of the Ring

by

J.R.R. Tolkien

Middle-earth Term Analysis

The world that The Fellowship of the Ring and many more of Tolkien’s works are set in.

Middle-earth Quotes in The Fellowship of the Ring

The The Fellowship of the Ring quotes below are all either spoken by Middle-earth or refer to Middle-earth. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 2, Chapter 5 Quotes

“The world was young,
The mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone
When Durin woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head.

The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away:
The world was fair in Durin’s Day.

[…]

The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge’s fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
The darkness dwells in Durin’s halls;
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm.
But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere;
There lies his crown in water deep
Till Durin wakes again from sleep.”

Related Characters: Gimli (speaker), Samwise (Sam) Gamgee
Page Number: 307-8
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Book 2, Chapter 8 Quotes

The travellers sat still without moving or speaking. On the green bank near to the very point of the Tongue the Lady Galadriel stood alone and silent. As they passed her they turned and their eyes watched her slowly floating away from them. For so it seemed to them: Lórien was slipping backward, like a bright ship masted with enchanted trees, sailing on to forgotten shores, while they sat helpless upon the margin of the grey and leafless world.

Related Characters: Frodo Baggins, Aragorn / Strider, Samwise (Sam) Gamgee, Boromir, Meriadoc (Merry) Brandybuck, Peregrin (Pippin) Took, Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli, Galadriel
Page Number: 367
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