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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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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.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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