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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENDeserves 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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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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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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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.
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