Legolas
"This
is no mere Ranger. He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn. You owe him your
allegiance."
"And
you have my bow."
"The
strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but
choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or
snow-an Elf. Farewell," he said to Gandalf. " I go to find
the Sun!"
"Nay, time
does not tarry ever, but change and growth is not in all things and places
alike. For the Elves the world moves, and moves both very swift and very
slow. Swift, because they themselves change little, and all else fleets
by: it is a grief to them. Slow, because they do not count the running
years, not for themselves. The passing seasons are but ripples ever repeated in
the long long stream. Yet beneath the Sun all things must wear to an end
at last."
"Tomorrow is
unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the sun."-Legolas
"That
is one of the Mearas, unless my eyes are cheated by some spell."
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