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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
                                				
        		        				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
                                				
        		        				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 cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold. — J.R.R. Tolkien
                                				
        		        				To 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                                
                                                        — J.R.R. Tolkien