The Children of Húrin

“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”

“False hopes are more dangerous than fears.”

“I will not walk backward in life.”

“Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough.”

“For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.”

“The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.”

“Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.”

“On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.”

“But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.”

“Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.”

“Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.”

“Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.'But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.”

“So most men teach, and few men learn.”

“Grief is a hone to a hard mind.”

“Give with a free hand, but give of your own.”

“He says that we have learned nearly all that we know from them, and have been made a nobler people; and he says that the Men that have lately come over the Mountains are hardly better than Orcs.'That is true', answered Sador; 'true at least of some of us. But the up-climbing is painful, and from high places it is easy to fall low.”

“If I stayed beside you, love would lead me, not wisdom”

“This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.”

“Many a man of arms misreads patience and quiet. She did much good among us at much cost. Her heart was not faint, and patience will break at the last.”

“Master of the Dark Shadow. For I also, Niniel, had my darkness, in which dear things were lost; but now I have overcome it, I deem.”

“He was dark-haired as his mother, and promised to be like her in mood also; for he was not merry, and spoke little, though he learned to speak early and ever seemed older than his years. Túrin was slow to forget injustice or mockery; but the fire of his father was also in him, and he could be sudden and fierce. Yet he was quick to pity, and the hurts or sadness of living things might move him to tears.”

“But to this Orc-work such a life as we lead has brought us. Lawless and fruitless all our deeds have been, serving only ourselves, and feeding hate in our hearts.”

“Not fitting is it that the Elder Children of Ilúvatar should wed the Younger; nor is it wise, for they are brief, and soon pass, to leave us in widowhood while the world lasts. Neither will fate suffer it, unless it be once or twice only, for some high cause of doom that we do not perceive. But this man is not Beren, even if he be both as fair and as brave. A doom lies on him; a dark doom. Enter not into it! And if you will, your love shall betray you to bitterness and death.”

“Marrer of Middle-earth, would that I might see you face to face, and mar you as my lord Fingolfin did!”

“Ever will some new evil be hatched in Angband beyond the guess of Elves and Men,”

“For a man may love war, and yet dread many things.”

“You speak as a friend of Túrin son of Húrin?’ said Thingol. ‘I was, but I have loved truth more and longer,’ Mablung answered.”

“for a man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”

“As to the fate of Men,' said Sador, 'you must ask those that are wiser than Labadal. But as all can see, we weary soon and die; and by mischance many meet death even sooner.”