Цитаты из книги «Две твердыни», страница 7

Нет худа без добра : из случайной встречи выросла большая удача!

– Привет, Пиппин! - сказал он. - Так ты тоже путешествуешь с нами? А где же постель и завтрак?

Видно, мне суждено принимать помощь от того, кто меньше всего казался для этого пригодным, а тебе — помогать тому, кого ты преследовал с самыми худшими намерениями.

Вызвездило, и замерцали струи, тихо стекавшие в его ногам, и тенькали, тенькали, тенькали сотни серебряных звездных капель

— Чем ближе мы к опасности, тем дальше от беды.

Черная скала - граненое подножие Ортханка - влажно поблескивала; ее чудовищные острые ребра, казалось, только что вытесаны. Несколько щербин да осыпь напоминали о бессильной ярости онтов.

These deep eyes were now surveying them, slow and solemn, but very penetrating. They were brown, shot with a green light. Often afterwards Pippin tried to describe his first impression of them. "One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present: like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but it felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say or just feeling itself as something between root-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky—had sudden waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.”

Излишняя подозрительность надежней слепого доверия.

What a pity Bilbo did not stub the vile creature, when he had a chance!

Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need.

I do not feel any pity for Gollum. He deserves death.

Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give that to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

'It certainly came,' said Frodo, 'and that's the chief thing. But now we've got to think of our next move. Night will be on us soon. How beautiful the stars are, and the Moon!'

'They do cheer the heart, don't they?' said Sam looking up. 'Elvish they are. somehow. And the Moon's growing. We haven't seen him for a night or two in this cloudy weather. He's beginning to give quite a light.'