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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENDon’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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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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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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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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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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No Victory Without Suffering
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
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All’s well that ends better.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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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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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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