ITT: the best prophecies in literature

[Anonymous No.21561398]

>With his coming are the dread fires born again.
>The hills burn, and the land turns sere.
>The tides of men run out, and the hours dwindle.
>The wall is pierced, and the veil of parting raised.
>Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth.
>There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

[Anonymous No.21561464]

>>21561398
Schlock

[Anonymous No.21561505]

[Anonymous No.21561555]

>>21561398
David Eddings had some decent prophecies in both Belgariad series and Elenium series
Tolkien had some, like about how Turin would be the one to finally slay Melkor

[Anonymous No.21562849]

>>21561555
Belgariad is the worst thing Eddings has written (and I've read 90% of his published works). I have no idea why it became so popular. Is it just because it is so generic?

[Anonymous No.21562869]

Real talk, does Rand's great realization that reincarnation allows one to try again really hold up as a response to Moridin's view that the Dark One winning would be a good thing as it would end all suffering?
That part of the series always felt weak to me. Yes, if you goofed up in a previous life you get another chance - but you also get another chance to screw up and suffer again, and most people don't have the benefit of being reincarnated with all their memories like Rand/Lews Therin did or the "fortune" to be resurrected by Satan.

[Anonymous No.21562887]

“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

A little less effective since the book was published in the 1980’s but would’ve been cool if someone 100 years earlier said it too ig.