I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThen 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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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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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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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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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And 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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Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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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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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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