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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Fantasy Live
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Fairytale Safety True World
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Born Hope
No Victory Without Suffering
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Suffering Victory
End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Death End Journey Path
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Evil Myself Tears
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Decision Inspirational Time
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
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Enough War 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.
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Love Myself Philosophy Warrior Weapon
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Fantasy Himself
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Gold Lost Travel
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

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