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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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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
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
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Greatness See Tree Wake Up
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
I will not walk backward in life.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Inspirational Life Myself Walk
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Himself Kiss Romantic Sky
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
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Enough War World
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
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

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

Love Myself Philosophy Warrior Weapon
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

End One Liner Wisdom
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fantasy Himself
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
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

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