I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
J. R. R. TOLKIENSorry! 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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Short cuts make long delays.
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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.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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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.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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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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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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