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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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Himself Myself Path See Walk
I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Desire Kindness Love Man Myself
Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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Carry Fantasy Himself Romantic Yourself
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Judgement Man Time
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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Gold Lost Travel
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
I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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Fantasy Friendship Myself
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Fear Himself Man
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Fake Heart Hide Talk
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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Greatness See Tree Wake Up
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Fantasy Himself
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Enough War World
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

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