If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIENNever laugh at live dragons.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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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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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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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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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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I will not walk backward in life.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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