A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIENYes, 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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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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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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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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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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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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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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.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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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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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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