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Don't the great tales never end?
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Art moves them and they don't know what they've been moved by and they get quite drunk on it.
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Unmasking the intentions of a Satanic character: He cannot be both counselor and tyrant.
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Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them
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Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!
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Why couldn't he stop talking and let them drink his health?
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for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom.
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Is everything sad going to come untrue?
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The banquet was very splendid, however, though I had a bad cold at the time, I remember, and could only say 'thag you very buch'.
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Then Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.
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I am getting very old, and I began to wonder if I should ever live to see your chapters of our story.
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Not all who wander are lost.
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Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
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Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.
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All shall love me and despair.
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I have some counsel for hardy hearts.' The
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he did not reckon with the power that gold has upon which a dragon has long brooded, nor with dwarvish hearts.
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And that was the end of Smaug
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Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!
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Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- - that and such hope as I bring.
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I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
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You're a booby," said William. "Booby yerself!" said Tom.
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We plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my heart.
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Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.May the stars shine upon your faces! — J.R.R. Tolkien
I am nearly twenty-nine, so I pass you there; though I am but four feet, and not likely to grow any more, save sideways.
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It's got to ask uss a question, my preciouss, yes, yess, yesss. Jusst one more question to guess, yes, yess," said Gollum.
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I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.
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But I already know a little, and I can read more in your face and in the thought behind your questions.
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And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.
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He liked visitors, but he liked to know them before they arrived, and he preferred to ask them himself.
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Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!
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You can't trust us to let you face trouble alone.
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But - ," said Bilbo. "No time for it," said the wizard. "But - ," said Bilbo again. "No time for that either! Off you go!
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He caught sight of Dwalin's green hood hanging up. He hung his red one next to it, and Balin at your service!
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The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.
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The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened,
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to seize them: no speed seemed too
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There was more than one power at work, Frodo. The
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I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back.
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Yes, yes, my dear sir - and I do know your name, Mr. Bilbo Baggins.
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If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.
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A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.
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Bilbo of course ought to have been on his guard; but Smaug had rather an overwhelming personality.
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Adventures make one late for supper.
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Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.
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I believe legends and myths are largely made of truth..
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Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.
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May your beards never grow thin!
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His knowledge was deep, but his pride has grown with it.
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Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?"I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going. — J.R.R. Tolkien
My Precious, my Precious.
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Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.
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The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each ro themselves.
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Follow what may, great deeds are not lessened in worth.
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Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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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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When heads are at a loss bodies must serve.
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oft evil will shall evil mar.
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Already the hour had struck, and at his great Master's bidding he must march with war into the West.
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Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!
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I think I know already what counsel you would give, Boromir," said Frodo. "And it would seem like wisdom but for the warning of my heart.
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Farewell!' he said to Gandalf. 'I go to find the Sun!
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Great heart will not be denied.
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You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.
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The Goblins were the foes of all, and at their coming all other quarrels were forgotten.
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But it is not for thy valour only that I send thee, but to bring into the world a hope beyond thy sight, and a light that shall pierce the darkness.
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The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
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Elves are wondrous fair to look upon.
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And if you do come back, you will never be the same
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Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes.
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He had not done any strenuous walking for a long time, and the reflection looked rather flabby,
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And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.
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Tom's country ends here: he will not pass the borders. Tom has his house to mind, and Goldberry is waiting!
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In this meeting there may be more than chance;
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I look foul and feel fair.
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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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You shall not pass!
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For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.
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But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.
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Far over misty mountains coldTo dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Memory is not what the heart desires.
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Chapter I AN UNEXPECTED PARTY
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I will not walk backwards in life.
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No great leap for a man, but a leap in the dark.
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The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
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This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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