Quotes Challenge Day 3

Hello, everyone! Today is the final day of the Quotes Challenge- and, coincidentally, it's also September 22, Bilbo Baggins' birthday. Anyone want to guess which author I'm quoting today? Yep, J.R.R. Tolkien, through Bilbo, who else? And, because I'm turning this into a mini-celebration of LOTR, you don't just get one quote . . . you get three.

“Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.

Roads go ever ever on,
Under cloud and under star.
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen,
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green,
And trees and hills they long have known.”

 -Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why.”

- Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” 

-Faramir, The Lord of the Rings

 And my final three nominations are: Katie Grace, Ryebrynn, and (although she seems to have halfway disappeared) Ghost Ryter. To the nominees: as usual, you are free to do this or not do this as you please. If you do it, I look forward to seeing your quotes.

Noro go hul, bado go Eru, and hannon le for stopping by!

-Sarah (Leilani Sunblade)

Quotes Challenge Day 2

Hello, everyone! In case you missed yesterday's post, I'm currently doing the Quotes Challenge- which isn't much of a challenge, but is fun all the same. Yesterday, I posted a quote by Anne Elisabeth Stengl, and today, continuing my theme of favorite authors, I'll be posting one from Brandon Sanderson.

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”

– Wit, The Way of Kings

And as for my two nominees, I tag Merenwen and Allison. Feel free to do or not do as you please.
Thanks for stopping by!
-Sarah (Leilani Sunblade)

Quotes Challenge Day 1

Hello, everyone! A few months ago, Emmarayn Redding nominated me for the Quotes Challenge. I've seen this tag/challenge floating around the interwebs for a while now, and I think it's pretty cool, so I'm happy to have been nominated. How it works:

1. Thank the person who nominated you- Danke sehr, Emma!
2. Nominate three people every day (except I'm going break this rule more than Lews Therin broke the world; sorry).
3. Post a quote every day for three consecutive days.

Because I like a bit of a theme, I'll be posting one quote from each of my top three favorite authors. Today's author is Anne Elisabeth Stengl.

I don’t believe in chosen ones. In prophecies. In destinies.”

“Neither do I. On principle, I’m against them. Inconvenient, nonsensical things, and a cat does like to be master of his own fate, you know? But what I believe or don’t believe has little to do with the truth of the matter.”

- The Chronicler and Bard Eanrin, Dragonwitch

As for nominations . . . I lied. I'm not breaking this quite as much as Lews Therin broke the world. But instead of doing three per day, I'm doing one today, two tomorrow, and hopefully three the last day. Today's nominee is IDK323 of Writings in Panin.

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to stop by tomorrow for the second quote!
-Sarah (Leilani Sunblade)

Random Friday: Literary Quotes

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Suilaid, everyone! This week's Random Friday theme is literary quotes. As you can probably guess, there are a lot of quotes I like for various reasons. Obviously, I can't post all of them (I can't even post all my favorites), but I'll highlight some I especially like. 

1. “Maybe it will have a happy ending,” said she. “When everything’s complete and come full circle. This part ain’t so nice, but maybe somethin’ good will come of it? Remember, you have to read all the legends together to know for sure, and we don’t know them all yet. There may be a story out there to make this one happy.”- Rose Red, Veiled Rose 

2. "Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”- The Hobbit

3. "Half the places I have been to, never were. I make things up. Half the things I say are there cannot be found. When I was young I told a tale of buried gold, and men from leagues around dug in the woods. I dug myself."
"But why?"
"I thought the tale of treasure might be true."
"You said you made it up."
"I know I did. But then I didn't know I had. I forget things, too." - The Golux, The Thirteen Clocks

4. "Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."- "How to Get Things Done" by Robert Benchley (Note: I had to read this essay for school this year and quite enjoyed it It's very amusing. And that quote pretty much describes about half my life.)

5. "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”- Bilbo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings

6. "But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo, adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on, and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same; like old Mr Bilbo. But those aren’t always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in!"- Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings.

7. "I don't know what it is, but it's the only one there ever was."- Hark, The Thirteen Clocks

8. “Adventures are funny things. They always begin with the unexpected, but they always end with the promise of adventures yet to come."- The Final Storm 

9. "I don't believe in chosen ones. In prophecies. In destinies."
"Neither do I. On principle, I'm against them. Inconvenient, nonsensical things, and a cat does like to be master of his own fate, you know? But what I believe or don't believe has little to do with the truth of the matter."- The Chronicler and Bard Eanrin, Dragonwitch

10. "I know none of it makes sense to you! No common sense, in any case. But perhaps one day your uncommon sense will wake, and the worlds will become more bearable."- Dame Imraldera, Shadow Hand

11. “All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."- The Last Battle

12. "I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."- Puddleglum, The Silver Chair

What are some of your favorite literary quotes? Please tell me in the comments, or feel free to make your own Random Fridays post on your blog! Thanks for reading!

-Sarah (Leilani Sunblade)

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