If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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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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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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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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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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