'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
Gandalf: Fool of a Took!
Aragorn: Behold! The sword of Elendil!
Frodo: The Ring is mine.
Elrond: [to Gandalf] Men? Men are weak.
Gandalf: [to Frodo] Is it secret? Is it safe?
Legolas: They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard.
Pippin: Merry? Merry: What, Pip? Pippin: I'm hungry.
Treebeard: The Ents are going to war.
Saruman: There will be no dawn... for men.
A prudent wife is from the Lord. Proverbs 19:14
Even the grave of the Lord has a paid guard.
We are inflamed, by Thy Gift we are kindled; and are carried upwards; we glow inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that be in our heart, and sing a song of degrees; we glow inwardly with Thy fire, with Thy good fire, and we go; because we go...
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful....
Velvet looks horrified. “If you are fool enough to address King R’jan, you will do it thus and in no other manner! ‘My King, Liege, Lord, and Master, your servant begs you grant it leave to speak.’” “Wow. Totally delusionary there.” “...
Nothing good was withheld from me, even moral guidance was provided as my uncle read to me nightly out of a King James red-letter edition Bible. “Them’s the Good Lord’s words in red,” he would say reverently. These lessons installed in me a s...
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, diss...
Caroline Bingley: [Elizabeth enters the room, Darcy stands. Caroline is appalled] Good Lord, Miss Elizabeth. Did you walk here? Elizabeth Bennet: I did. [long pause] Elizabeth Bennet: I'm so sorry. How is my sister? Mr. Darcy: She's upstairs. Elizabe...
Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night.
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
The Lord is a great God. The Lord is a great King.
