Grabbing quotes for me, or anyone else who's passing to make a full article from.
He'd also said his sisters were the reason he'd gone into the military, so he'd never have to deal with such a large concentration of women in one place again, but that was hardly pertinent to this discussion.
Hethlin, CMC Ch 20.
They took off their masks now and again to
cool them, as the day-heat grew, and Frodo saw that they were goodly men,
pale-skinned, dark of hair, with grey eyes and faces sad and proud. They spoke
together in soft voices, at first using the Common Speech, but after the
manner of older days, and then changing to another language of their own. To
his amazement, as he listened Frodo became aware that it was the Elven-tongue
that they spoke, or one but little different; and he looked at them with
wonder, for he knew then that they must be Dúnedain of the South, men of the
line of the Lords of Westernesse.
After a while he spoke to them; but they were slow and cautious in
answering. They named themselves Mablung and Damrod, soldiers of Gondor, and
they were Rangers of Ithilien; for they were descended from folk who lived in
Ithilien at one time, before it was overrun. From such men the Lord Denethor
chose his forayers, who crossed the Anduin secretly (how or where, they would
not say) to harry the Orcs and other enemies that roamed between the Ephel
Dúath and the River.
LotR: TT
Theaeblackthorn 17:04, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
July 3018
Rangers in the Red Dog, who were celebrating the elevation of one of their number to the lofty rank of captain. Boromir approached the table with a grin, feeling simply happy for the first time that day."Congratulations, Captain Mablung,"
Visions
Theaeblackthorn 20:58, July 7, 2010 (UTC)