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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. Tolkien

But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Darkness End Hope
Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Carry Fantasy Himself Romantic Yourself
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
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Adventure Carry End Story
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Fantasy Hairs
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Believe Darkness Endurance Myself
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Anger Fantasy Quick
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Art Enemy Goodness Sick
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
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Alone Memories Old Pay Wife Wisdom
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Darkness Light Yourself
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Moon Sun Walk Wings Yourself
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Feeling Goodness Morning Myself Yourself
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Death Deserve Judgement Life Live

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