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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENA safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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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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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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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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For 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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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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