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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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.
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Himself Myself Path See Walk
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Believe Darkness Endurance Myself
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Deserve Myself Philosophy Yourself
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Beyond Doubt End See
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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Dream Himself Season See Strange Time Vision Wild
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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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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Love Myself Philosophy Warrior Weapon
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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Mad Myself Yourself
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Myself Revenge
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Children Food Goodness Kindness Value World
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Friendship Man Trust
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Fantasy Live
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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Change Heart Herself Sun Understand
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.
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Death Horror Spiritual Time
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Dragon Himself Leave Live Myself
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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Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost

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