“And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?”

“If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me”

“From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.”

“She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of the heart and mot by constraint.”

“I liked this.  I liked this a lot.  Memaw said a boy would woo me.  I had just been wooed in one evening’s conversation.  If my hunch was right, he seemed to be wooed by me as well. He wasn’t even blind. This could be good.”

“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.”