I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
J. R. R. TOLKIENFaithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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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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Never laugh at live dragons.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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