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. TOLKIENLiving by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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What does your heart tell you?
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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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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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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