J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Fantasy Myself
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.
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Death Deserve Judgement Life Live
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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Fear Patience Try Yourself
Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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Enjoyment Sad Time Yourself
What does your heart tell you?
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Heart Talk Yourself
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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Children Food Goodness Kindness Value World
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Judgement Man Time
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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Gold Lost Old Philosophy Strong
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
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
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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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
No Victory Without Suffering
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Suffering Victory
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Fantasy Himself
I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Choice Myself
In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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Believe Darkness Endurance Myself
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Moon Sun Walk Wings Yourself
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Faith Greatness Live
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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Death Horror Spiritual Time
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Friendship Man Trust
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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Darkness Forget Grief Heart Himself Teaching Wisdom
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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Feeling Goodness Morning Myself Yourself
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Evil Myself Tears
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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Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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Mad Myself Yourself
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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Change Heart Herself Sun Understand
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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Break Himself Path Wisdom

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