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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

J. R. R. Tolkien

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Darkness Light Yourself
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Habit Myself Old Present Talk Wisdom
I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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Himself Myself Path See Walk
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Adventure Carry End Story
I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Desire Kindness Love Man Myself
Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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Greatness See Tree Wake Up
Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Courage Place
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Animal Death Voice Wings
I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Fantasy Myself
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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Love Myself Philosophy Warrior Weapon
The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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Death Horror Spiritual Time
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Philosophy World Yourself
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Deserve Myself Philosophy Yourself
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Born Hope

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