Shadows of Twilight: an Elrond fansite

QUOTES ABOUT ELROND

The Silmarillion

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Elrond's wisdom in the Second Age:

"Only to Lindon [Sauron] did not come, for Gil-galad and Elrond doubted him and his fair-seeming, and though they knew not who in truth he was they would not admit him to that land. But elsewhere the Elves received him gladly... And he said to them, 'Alas, for the weakness of the great! For a mightly king is Gil-galad, and wise in all lore is Master Elrond, and yet they will not aid me in their labours. Can it be that they do not desire to see other lands become as blissful as their own?" (Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age)

"The Ruling Ring passed out of the knowledge even of the Wise in that age; yet it was not unmade. For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand, in which it had been forged, so that it should perish, and the power of Sauron be forever diminished, and he should remain only as a shadow of malice in the wilderness." (Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age)

Elrond as keeper of lore and master of wisdom through the third age:

"Narsil came in due time to the hand of Valandil, Isildur's heir, in Imladris; but the blade was broken and its light extinguished, and it was not forged anew. And Master Elrond foretold that this would not be done until the Ruling Ring should be found again and Sauron should return; but the hope of Elves and Men was that these things might never come to pass." (Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age)

"The Dúnedain of the North became divided into petty realms and lordships, and their foes devoured them one by one. Ever they dwindled in years, until their glory passed, leaving only green mounds in the grass. At lenth naught was left of them but a strange people wandering secretly in the wild, and other men knew not their homes nor the purpose of their journeys, and save in Imladris, in the house of Elrond, their ancestry was forgotten." (Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age)

"In all the days of the Third Age, after the fall of Gil-galad, Master Elrond abode in Imladris, and he gathered there many Elves, and other folk of wisdom and power from among all the kindreds of Middle-earth, and he preserved through many lives of Men the memory of all that had been fair; and the house of Elrond was a refuge for the weary and the oppressed, and a treasury of good counsel and wise lore. In that house were harboured the Heirs of Isildur, in childhood and old age, because of their kinship of their blood with Elrond himself, and because he knew in his wisdom that one should come of their line to whom a great part was appointed in the last deeds of that Age." (Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age)

"Ere the Third Age was ended the Elves perceived that the Ring of Sapphire was with Elrond, in the fair valley of Rivendell, upon whose house the stars of heaven most brightly shone." (Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age)

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