Shadows of Twilight: an Elrond fansite

QUOTES ABOUT ELROND

The Lord of the Rings

Elrond's wisdom, skill and power:

"Elrond has cured you: he has tended you for days, ever since you were brought in... Elrond is a master of healing, but the weapons of our enemy are deadly. To tell you the truth, I had very little hope; for I suspected that there was some fragment of the blade still closed in the wound. But it could not be found until last night. The Elrond removed a splinter." (Gandalf - The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 1)

"Elrond commanded [the flood] ... The river of this valley is under his power, and it will rise in anger when he has great need to bar the Ford." (Gandalf - The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 1)

"All listened while Elrond in his clear voice spoke of Sauron and the Rings of Power, and their forging in the Second Age of the world long ago. A part of his tale was known to some there, but the full tale to none, and many eyes were turned to Elrond in fear and wonder as he told of the Elven-smiths of Eregion and their friendship with Moria, and their eagerness for knowledge, by which Sauron ensnared them. For in that time he was not yet evil to behold, and they received his aid and grew mighty in craft, whereas he learned all their secrets, and betrayed them, and forged secretly in the Mountain of Fire the One Ring to be their master... Then through all the years that followed he traced the Ring; but since that history is elsewhere recounted, even as Elrond himself set it down in his books of lore, it is not here recalled." (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 2)

"The might of Elrond is in wisdom not in weapons, it is said." (Boromir - The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 2)

"We spoke to our father Denethor, Lord of Minas Tirith, wise in the lore of Gondor. This only would he say, that Imladris was of old the name among the elves of a far norther dale, where Elrond the Halfelven dwelt, greatest of lore-masters." (Boromir - The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 2)

"Would that Elrond were here, for he is the eldest of all our race, and has the greater power." (Aragorn in the Houses of Healing - The Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 8)

The end of the Third Age:

"Soon Celeborn and Galadriel and their folk would turn eastward... They had journeyed thus far by west-ways, for they had much to speak of with Elrond and with Gandalf, and here they lingered still in converse with their friends. Often long after the hobbits were wrapped in sleep they would sit together under the stars, recalling the ages that were gone and all their joys and labours in the world, or holding council, concerning the days to come. If any wanderer had chanced to pass, little would he have seen or heard, and it would have seemed to him only that he saw grey figures, carved in stone, memorials of forgotten things now lost in unpeopled lands. For they did not move or speak with mouth, looking from mind to mind; and only their shining eyes stirred and kindled as their thoughts went to and fro." (The Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 6)

"Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over, and the Days of the Rings were passed, and an end was come of the story and song of those times." (The Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 9)

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