False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAnd 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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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run 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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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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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