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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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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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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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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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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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