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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENDon’t go where I can’t follow!
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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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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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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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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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What does your heart tell you?
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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The road goes ever on and on
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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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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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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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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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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