It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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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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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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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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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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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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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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