If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIENFor 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.
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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.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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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.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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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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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.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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