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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

J. R. R. Tolkien

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Morning Yourself
There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fun Path Remember Safety Wild World
Never laugh at live dragons.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fantasy Laughter Live
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Friendship Man Trust
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Judgement Man Time
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
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Danger Fear Hope
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
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Absence Myself Travel
I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

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

Anger Fantasy Quick
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

End Happiness Myself Togetherness
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Heart Understand Yourself
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Born Hope
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

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

Darkness End Hope

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