Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
J. R. R. TOLKIENDon’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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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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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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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.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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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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I will not walk backward in life.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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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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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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