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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENA man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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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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Not all those who wander are lost.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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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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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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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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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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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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