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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe road goes ever on and on
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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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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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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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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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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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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