From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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