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. TOLKIENIn this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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