Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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There 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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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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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