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. TOLKIENIt’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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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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.
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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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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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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.
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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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