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. TOLKIENMoonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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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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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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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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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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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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What does your heart tell you?
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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