False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIENFor even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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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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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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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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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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