The Hobbit

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A Short Rest

- [about the swords the company had found in a trolls' lair:] "These are not troll-make. They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West, my kin. They were made in Gondolin for the Goblin-wars. They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago. This, Thorin, the runes name Ocrist, the Goblin-cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade. This, Gandalf, was Glamdring, Foehammer that the king of Gondolin once wore. Keep them well! [...] I could not say," said Elrond, "but one may guess that your trolls had plundered other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robbries in som ehold in the mountains. I have heard that there are still forgotten treasures of old to be found in the deserted caverns of the mines of Moria, since the dwarf and goblin war."

- [Thorin expressed the wish that his sword soon may cleave goblins again.] "A wish that is likely to be granted soon enough in the mountains!" said Elrond. "But show me now your map! [...] What is this?" he said. "There are moon-letters here, beside the plain runes which say 'five feet high the door and three may walk abreast.' [...] Moon-letters are rune-letters, but you cannot see them," said Elrond, "not when you look straight at them. They can only be seen when the moon shines behind them, and what is more, with the more cunning sort it must be a moon of the same shape and season as the day when they were written. The dwarves invented them and wrote them with silver pens, as your friends could tell you. These must have been written on a midsummer's eve in a crescent moon, a long while ago. [...] Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks," read Elrond, "and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole."

- [Gandalf asks him if there's more writing.] "None to be seen this moon."

The Last Stage

- [about the possibility to banish the Necromancer from the world] "It would be well indeed," said Elrond; "but I fear that will not come about in this age of the world, or for many after."

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