Thursday, December 4, 2008

Marc Chagall Birthday painting

Marc Chagall Birthday paintingMarc Chagall The Fiddler paintingPaul Gauguin Arearea painting
metal, light and yet harder than tempered steel. Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim. The Elves dearly loved it, and among many uses they made of it ithildin, starmoon, which you saw upon the doors. Bilbo had a corslet of mithril-rings that Thorin gave him. I wonder what has become of it? Gathering dust still in Michel Delving Mathom-house, I suppose.'`What? ' cried Gimli, startled out of his silence. `A corslet of Moria-silver? That was a kingly gift! ''Yes,' said Gandalf. `I never told him, but its worth was greater than the value of the whole Shire and everything in it.'Frodo said nothing, but he put his hand under his tunic and touched the rings of his mail-shirt. He felt staggered to think that he had been walking about with the price of the Shire under his jacket
Georges Seurat Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte painting
need to delve for them: all things that they desired they could obtain in traffic. For here alone in the world was found Moria-silver, or true-silver as some have called it: mithril is the Elvish name. The Dwarves have a name which they do not tell. Its worth was ten times that of gold, and now it is beyond price; for little is left above ground, and even the Orcs dare not delve here for it. The lodes lead away north towards Caradhras, and down to darkness. The Dwarves tell no tale; but even as mithril was the foundation , so also it was their destruction: they delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane. Of what they brought to light the Orcs have gathered nearly all, and given it in tribute to Sauron, who covets it.`Mithril! All folk desired it. It could be beaten like copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make of it a

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