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!
J. R. R. TOLKIENWhere there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
More J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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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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What does your heart tell you?
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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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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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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