I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
J. R. R. TOLKIENHe found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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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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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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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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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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