Do I not say truly, Gandalf, said Aragorn at last, that you could whithersoever you wished quicker than I? And this I also say: you are our captain and our banner. The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads. (查看原文)
‘Five days ere I set out on this venture, eleven days ago at about this hour of the day, I heard the blowing of that horn: from the northward it seemed, but dim, as if it were but an echo in the mind. A boding of ill we thought it, my father and I, for no tidings had we heard of Boromir since he went away, and no watcher on our borders had seen him pass. And on the third night after another and a stranger thing befell me.
‘I sat at night by the waters of Anduin, in the grey dark under the young pale moon, watching the ever-moving stream; and the sad reeds were rustling. So do we ever watch the shores nigh Osgiliath, which our enemies now partly hold, and issue from it to harry our lands. But that night all the world slept at the midnight hour. Then I saw, or it seemed that I saw, a boat f... (查看原文)
It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace - all in a flash of thought which was quickly driven from his mind. (查看原文)
'You move me,Gimli,'said Legolas.'I have never heard you speak like this before.Almost you make me regret that I have not seen these caves.Come!Let us make this bargain - if we both return safe out of the perils that await us,we will journey for a while together.You shall visit Fangorn with me,and then I will come with you to see Helm's Deep.'
'That would not be the way of return that I should choose,'said Gimli.'But I will endure Fangorn,if I have your promise to come back to the caves and share their wonder with me.'
'You have my promise,'said Legolas. (查看原文)
War must be,while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all;but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness,nor the arrow for its swiftness,nor the warrior for his glory. (查看原文)
Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
First name the four, the free peoples:
Eldest of all, the elf-children;
Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses;
Ent the earthborn, old as mountains;
Man the mortal, master of horses......
’We always seem to have got left out of the old lists, and the old stories,' said Merry. 'Yet we've been about for quite a long time. We're hobbits.'
'Why not make a new line?' said Pippin.
'Half-grown hobbits, the hole -dwellers.
Put us in amongst the four, next to Man (the Big People) and you've got it.' (查看原文)
'......Why indeed should we welcome you, Master Stormcrow? Lathspell I name you, Ill-news; and ill news is an ill guest they say.' (said Wormtongue to Gandalf.)
'You are held wise, my friend Wormtongue......' answered Gandalf in a soft voice. 'Yet in two ways may a man come with evil tidings. He may be a worker of evil; or he may be such as leaves well alone, and comes only to bring aid in time of need.'
'That is so,' said Wormtongue; 'but there is a third kind; pickers of bones, meddlers in other men's sorrows, carrion-fowl that grow fat on war......' (查看原文)
'I wonder,' said Frodo. 'But I don't know. And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to. (查看原文)
Frodo's face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiseling of the shaping years was now revealing in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: 'I love him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no." (查看原文)
作者: J.R.R. Tolkien 副标题: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings isbn: 0618574956 书名: The Two Towers 页数: 448 定价: USD 10.95 出版社: Mariner Books 出版年: 2005-06-01 装帧: Paperback
