May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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The road goes ever on and on
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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.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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No Victory Without Suffering
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All’s well that ends better.
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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.
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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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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 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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