Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI 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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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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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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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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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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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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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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