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All’s well that ends better.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Mad Myself Yourself
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Myself Revenge
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fantasy Himself
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Break Himself Path Wisdom
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Business Danger Road
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Decision Inspirational Time
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Adventure Difficult Myself
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Advice Danger Deep Gift Wisdom
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
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Hope Life Need
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Growth Healing Love Myself
The wise speak only of what they know
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Knowledge Talk Wisdom
The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Death Horror Spiritual Time
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Friendship Man Trust
Never laugh at live dragons.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fantasy Laughter Live
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Beyond Doubt End See
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fake Heart Hide Talk
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
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fear Patience Try Yourself
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fairytale Safety True World
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fun Path Remember Safety Wild World
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Food Gold Happiness Value World
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Faith Greatness Live
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
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!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Laughter Live Man Sound Strange Voice
What does your heart tell you?
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Heart Talk Yourself
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Change Heart Herself Sun Understand

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