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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

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fantasy Myself
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
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fantasy Live
The wise speak only of what they know
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Knowledge Talk Wisdom
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Body Spirit Strength
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
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Moon Sun Walk Wings Yourself
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Children Food Goodness Kindness Value 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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Change Future Person
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. TOLKIEN

Dream Himself Season See Strange Time Vision Wild
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Darkness Faith Himself Road
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Gold Lost Old Philosophy Strong
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Alone Memories Old Pay Wife Wisdom

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