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. TOLKIENAll that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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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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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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