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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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Death Horror Spiritual Time
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
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.
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Children Food Goodness Kindness Value World
Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Death End Journey Path
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Fantasy Live
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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Job Philosophy Start
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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Break Himself Path Wisdom
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Deserve Myself Philosophy Yourself
No Victory Without Suffering
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Suffering Victory
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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Laughter Live Man Sound Strange Voice
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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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
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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Break Light Power Wake Up
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Adventure Carry End Story
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Judgement Man Time
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Myself Revenge
May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Fantasy Hairs
All’s well that ends better.
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End One Liner
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fantasy Yourself
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Enough War World
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Goodness Hope Quite Worry
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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Morning Yourself
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Animal Death Voice Wings
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Beyond Doubt End See
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Body Spirit Strength
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Darkness End Hope

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