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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Goodness Hope Quite Worry
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Fantasy Himself
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Anger Fantasy Quick
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Moon Sun Walk Wings Yourself
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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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Morning Yourself
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start
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
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
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Growth Healing Love Myself
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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Beyond Memories World
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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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Darkness Faith Himself Road
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Darkness End Hope

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