The wise speak only of what they know
J. R. R. TOLKIENEven the smallest person can change the course of the future
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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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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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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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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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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