Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
J. R. R. TOLKIENVoiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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What does your heart tell you?
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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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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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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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.
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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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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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