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. TOLKIENPay 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.
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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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I will not walk backward in life.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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The road goes ever on and on
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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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.
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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?
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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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.
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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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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.
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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