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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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Healing Philosophy Revenge
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Adventure Carry End Story
The road goes ever on and on
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Road Travel
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Art Enemy Goodness Sick
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Himself Kiss Romantic Sky
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Job Philosophy Start
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Absence Myself Travel
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Animal Death Voice Wings
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Adventure Difficult Myself
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Greatness See Tree Wake Up
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Himself Myself Path See Walk
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. TOLKIEN

Death Horror Spiritual Time
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Enough War World

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