# Quote — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

> Lúthien Tinúviel
>
> more fair than mortal tongue can tell.
>
> Though all to ruin fell the world
>
> and were dissolved and backward hurled
>
> unmade into the old abyss,
>
> yet were its making good, for this—
>
> the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea—
>
> that Lúthien for a time should be.

- Author: [J.R.R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien.md)
- Book: [The Silmarillion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion.md)
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- Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md)
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## More from this book

> Here I have found what I sought not indeed, but finding I would possess for ever. For it is above all gold and silver, and beyond all jewels. Neither rock, nor steel, nor the fires of Morgoth, nor all the powers of the Elf-kingdoms, shall keep from me the treasure that I desire. For Lúthien your daughter is the fairest of all the Children of the World.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/here-i-have.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md)

> Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/love-not-too.md)

Topics: [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [advice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/advice.md)

> He that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed while others reap and sow in his stead.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/he-that-sows.md)

Topics: [lies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies.md)