Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We'll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
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As he has ever judged,' said Arag... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Ar... J.R.R. TOLKIEN And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? J.R.R. TOLKIEN And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain F... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle... J.R.R. TOLKIEN At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. ‘Do not let your hearts ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars sh... J.R.R. TOLKIEN For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker t... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your ey... J.R.R. TOLKIEN But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes. J.R.R. TOLKIEN He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs we... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many quest... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts... J.R.R. TOLKIEN And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair... J.R.R. TOLKIEN wandering in the summer in the woods of Neldoreth [Beren] came upon Lúthien, daughter of Thingol an... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be ver... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Even when a prohibition in a fairy-story is guessed to be derived from some taboo once practised lon... J.R.R. TOLKIEN "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkenss." ~ J.R.R. TOLKIEN A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. J.R.R. TOLKIEN I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disappr... J.R.R. TOLKIEN So it begins. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thund... J.R.R. TOLKIEN PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end h... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That i... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away e... J.R.R. TOLKIEN As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid. J.R.R. TOLKIEN May the hair on your toes never fall out! J.R.R. TOLKIEN You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool! J.R.R. TOLKIEN Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami... J.R.R. TOLKIEN No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. J.R.R. TOLKIEN For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal... J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha... J.R.R. TOLKIEN For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder... J.R.R. TOLKIEN What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pit... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintellig... J.R.R. TOLKIEN He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not n... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Books ought to have good endings. J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing! J.R.R. TOLKIEN some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in j... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows The West Wind goes walking, and abo... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel... J.R.R. TOLKIEN From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you l... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have p... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Never laugh at live dragons. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Handsome is as handsome does J.R.R. TOLKIEN But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN