I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
J. R. R. TOLKIENWhat a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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What does your heart tell you?
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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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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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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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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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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