5 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien about betrayal

  • Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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    You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

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  • Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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    Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.'But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

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  • Author J.R.R. Tolkien
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    Gunnar:'Vile words to use,thou Valkyrie,thou slayer of men,and sword-hearted!"Brynhild:'If sword I had,I would slay thee now,for thy secret treason,for thy sundered oaths!

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