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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Philosophy World Yourself
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Gold Lost Travel
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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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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Carry Fantasy Himself Romantic Yourself
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Food Gold Happiness Value World
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Darkness End Hope
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
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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Greatness See Tree Wake Up
No Victory Without Suffering
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Suffering Victory
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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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
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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Himself Myself Path See Walk
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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End Happiness Myself Togetherness
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Adventure Carry End Story

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