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It’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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Evil Myself Tears
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Darkness End Hope
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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Death Horror Spiritual Time
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Darkness Faith Himself Road
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Goodness Hope Quite Worry
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Fantasy Live
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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Alone Memories Old Pay Wife Wisdom
He 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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Dream Himself Season See Strange Time Vision Wild
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Food Gold Happiness Value World
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Philosophy World Yourself
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Myself Revenge
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Animal Death Voice Wings
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fun Path Remember Safety Wild World

It’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’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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