J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Silence
  • Melancholy
  • Birds