I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
J. R. R. TOLKIENYou have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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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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What does your heart tell you?
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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.
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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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The road goes ever on and on
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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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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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.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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