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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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. TOLKIEN

Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Alone Memories Old Pay Wife Wisdom
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Darkness End Hope
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Danger Fear Hope
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Fantasy Live
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Healing Philosophy Revenge
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Beyond Doubt End See
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Judgement Man Time
All’s well that ends better.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

End One Liner
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Darkness Faith Himself Road
What does your heart tell you?
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Heart Talk Yourself
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Mystery Philosophy Quite Yourself
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Break Light Power Wake Up

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