I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI 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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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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 am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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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.
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I 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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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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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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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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No Victory Without Suffering
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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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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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 shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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