It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIENSome 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.
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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The wise speak only of what they know
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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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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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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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 is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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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.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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