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14 April 2007 - 13 August 2008
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
13 August 2008 - 12 November 2009
That is a fair lord and a great captain of men. If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising.
- Agree. Wonderful quote. -- Ederchil 12:30, 31 July 2008 (EDT)
- Agree. Beautiful words. :) ~~ Þelma 13:30, 4 August 2008 (EDT)
- Agree. Truly beautiful words. -- Eldarion Telcontar 14:11, 12 August 2008 (EDT)
- Agree. Thought-provoking. -- Ingwe
- Agree. Looks good to me, updating the Main Page right now.-- Hyarion
12 November 2009 - 2 January 2011
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens," said Gimli.
"Maybe," said Elrond, "but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
- Agree. Though technically, I'd agree with any quote nom. What happened to the system? Was it to be weekly or monthly? -- Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits)
- Very true, anything for a change. Perhaps an automated system that selected a quote from a database would be better, I seem to recall seeing that discussed somewhere a while ago. Agree. --Aule the Smith 21:48, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
- Agree. Quite proverbial. -Ingwe
- Agree - Very interesting quotation.-- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 17:27, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
- Agree - It definetely makes you think (obviously it's Elrond)--Breragor
- Agree Ok, so should we put to this quote up? The current one was here the last time I've visited TG, which was a long time ago, so this is not good. :) I think we all agree the above one is a wonderful quote. ~~ Þelma 00:47, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
2 January 2011 - 24 June 2011
Morgoth held hurled aloft Grond, Hammer of the Underworld, and swung it down like a bolt of thunder. But Fingolfin sprang aside, and Grond rent a mighty pit in the earth, whence smoke and fire darted. Many times Morgoth essayed to smite him, and each time Fingolfin leaped away, as a lightning shoots from under dark cloud; and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds, and seven times Morgoth gave a cry of anguish, whereat the hosts of Angband fell upon their faces in dismay, and the cries echoed in the Northlands.
I know it's a longer one - and I don't mind it being made shorter (in fact it probably is a bit too long; maybe from "Many times..." onwards) - but I just love it because I have a natural bias towards Fingolfin! Indeed, any of the quotes from this paragraph or the subsequent couple of paragraphs would, I think, be excellent because it captures a key even in the history of Arda with Tolkien's excellent literary skill. Also, would be good to have a quote about a non-Third Age event. Proposed by: --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 20:20, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
- Agree: I like the quote in full. It gives a good idea of the tone of Sil. --Ederchil (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 22:32, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
- Agree: Great Quote! Good to have a quote from The Silmarillion... -- Eldarion Telcontar 21:04, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
24 June 2011 - 4 February 2012
Fëanor was the mightiest in skill of word and of hand, more learned than his brothers; his spirit burned as a flame. Fingolfin was the strongest, the most steadfast, and the most valiant. Finarfin was the fairest, and the most wise of heart.
Chosen unilaterally by User:Mith due to lack of successful nominations.
4 February 2012 - 23 August 2014
But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
Chosen unilaterally by User:Mith due to lack of successful nominations.
23 August 2014 - 3 December 2014
I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. But you are my heir: all that I had and might have had I leave to you.
Chosen unilaterally by User:Mith due to lack of successful nominations.
3 December 2014 - 26 November 2017
I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself.
Chosen unilaterally by User:Mith due to lack of successful nominations.
26 November 2017 - 25 December 2018
Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
Chosen unilaterally by User:Mith due to lack of successful nominations.
25 December 2018 - 3 July 2020
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.
Chosen unilaterally by User:Mith due to lack of successful nominations.
3 July 2020 - 2 January 2021
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Chosen unilaterally by User:Mith due to lack of successful nominations.
2 January 2021 - 20 January 2022
"I have come," he said. "But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!" And suddenly, as he set it on his finger, he vanished from Sam's sight.
Chosen unilaterally by User:Mith due to lack of successful nominations.
20 January 2022 - 21 May 2022
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
- Agree --Dernhelm 21:29, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
- Agree --Grace18 17:41, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
- Agree --Quentandil 12:07, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
21 May 2022 - 1 January 2023
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
- Agree. --Grace18 01:05, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- Agree. Lovely, lovely quote. I didn't know of it. --Quentandil 22:15, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Agree. This is a good quote that sums up an important theme of The Lord of the Rings. --Pachyderminator 03:21, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
1 January 2023 - 23 June 2023
Then when Fingon heard afar the great trumpet of Turgon his brother, the shadow passed and his heart was uplifted, and he shouted aloud: Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalië ar Atanatári, utúlie'n aurë! The day has come! Behold, people of the Eldar and Fathers of Men, the day has come! And all those who heard his great voice echo in the hills answered crying: Auta i lómë! The night is passing!
- Agree. I love this quote! It is so inspiring and beautiful! I think it would make a great featured quote. -Rohiril
- Agree. It's a popular quote and fits the Featured Article of Gondolin. --Quentandil (talk) 20:50, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
23 June 2023 - 2 January 2024
Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three,
What brought they from the foundered land
Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
And one white tree.
Chosen unilaterally by User:Quentandil to fit the Númenórean theme of the Main Page.
2 January 2024 - 24 June 2024
Farewell sweet earth and northern sky,
For ever blest, since here did lie,
And here with lissom limbs did run,
Beneath the moon, beneath the sun,
Lúthien Tinúviel
More fair than mortal tongue can tell.
Though all to ruin fell the world,
And were dissolved and backward hurled
Unmade into the old abyss,
Yet were its making good, for this—
The dawn, the dusk, the earth, the sea—
That Lúthien on a time should be!
- Agree. --Hands of a healer (talk) 16:57, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
- Agree, but the last stanza better.--Quentandil (talk) 13:49, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
24 June 2024 - present
Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur's Bane shall waken,
And the Halfling forth shall stand.
Chosen unilaterally by User:Quentandil to match the current featured article.