Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThere are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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I 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 wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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