For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.


The two towers (ed. 1966)

J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to...

For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to...

For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to...

For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to...