The wise speak only of what they know
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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Not all those who wander are lost.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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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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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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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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I will not walk backward in life.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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