The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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.’
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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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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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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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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 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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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.
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