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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENNot all those who wander are lost.
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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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 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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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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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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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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I will not walk backward in life.
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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