Potent Potables for 1000

Wanted to share two examples of authors treating/dealing with words as powerful things. As we listen to sound-bite upon sound-bite from various Presidential candidates and endless commentators, it doesn't hurt to remember what powerful things words are.

"...we should become aware of what we are doing when we speak, of the ancient, fragile, and (well used) immensely potent instruments that words are." - Lewis, Studies in Words

"He chanted a song of wizardry,
Of piercing, opening, of treachery,
Revealing, uncovering, betraying.
Then sudden Felagund there swaying
Sang in answer a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;
Of changing and of shifting shape
Of snares eluded, broken traps,
The prison opening, the chain that snaps." - Tolkien, Silmarillion