Elvish Quotes

#1. And he could sleep, if sleep it could be called by Men, resting his mind in the strange paths of Elvish dreams, even as he walked open-eyed in the light of this world.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?"
"Elvish.

Michelle Hodkin

#3. It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"Well, doesn't it perhaps mean that the magic word that opens the door is 'allegiance'?" Said Jack. "In Elvish?"
"That's a stupid idea," said John. "Then anyone who spoke Elvish could get in.

James A. Owen

#4. Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Thou hast
Drawn laughter from
A well of secret tears
And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking
And sweet.

Adelaide Crapsey

#6. I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

Evangeline Lilly

#7. And for two weeks I was banged up with a Hobbit who only spoke Elvish," said Jess.

Sue Limb

#8. There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. It's some kind of Elvish.I can't read it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

Jane Yolen

#11. I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.

Evangeline Lilly

#12. Upon his tomb the Elvenking then laid Orcrist, the elvish sword that had been taken from Thorin in captivity. It is said in songs that it gleamed ever in the dark if foes approached, and the fortress of the dwarves could not be taken by surprise.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

Salman Rushdie

#14. for being the work of Elvish smiths in the Elder Days these swords shone with a cold light, if any Orcs were near at hand. Behind

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.

Ernest Cline

#16. Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over.

Junot Diaz

#17. You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

Christopher Lee

#18. Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#19. Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.

Vyasa

#20. I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

Moses Malone

#21. Whatever it is, I'm not up for it." "Oh, Missee Felman, I feel so bad for ju,

Nora Ephron

#22. Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

Suzanne Collins

#23. There are some stories that don't want telling," Gian said. "Some stories you tell, they make things worse. Not better.

Kameron Hurley

#24. A bit reluctantly, trying to leave my bruised ego behind, I was warming to the Appalachian idea.
Bourbon and branch water. Dulcimer music. Wildflowers in jelly jars. Biscuits and country ham. That did have a certain charm.

Judith Fertig

#25. I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

Peter Robinson

#26. You are so full of it. You think we're just going to skip away with you into the sunset?"
"No, I expect you to fucking prance, and you're going to do it with a smile & the least amount of bitching possible

Alexandra Bracken

#27. I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.

Mary Balogh

#28. A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Samuel Richardson

#29. Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.

Oh Land

#30. Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.

Mae Jemison

#31. I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

Ben Elton

#32. Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions - discouragement and despair - and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up.

Jim Berg

#33. What is an ending? Theres no such thing. Death is the only ending.

Robert Altman