There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIENAnd 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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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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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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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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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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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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The road goes ever on and on
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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All’s well that ends better.
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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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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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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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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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End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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