J.R.R. Tolkien quote: "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!"

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far u...
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You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Sec...
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.
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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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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much tha...
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do a...
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Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe
Rain may fall, and wind m...
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Home is behind, the world ahead,
and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to ...
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It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your ...
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He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.
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It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
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Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands...
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Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it ...
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How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to und...
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I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Sma...
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All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.
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After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for hi...
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I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes ...
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They made for his noise far quicker than he had expected. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart f...
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I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preser...
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Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
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Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like...
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God is the Lord, of angels, and of men - and of elves
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It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
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hope is not victory
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I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
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Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you alone, yourself and nameles...
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She should not die, so young and beautiful. At least, she should not die alone.
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It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that...
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The Road goes ever on and on Out from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, Let ...
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We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treas...
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Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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No diré no lloréis, pues no todas las lágrimas son amargas.
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That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.
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The King beneath the mountains,
The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air...
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became ...
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The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and p...
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In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
"W...
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And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word...
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Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.To hope...
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Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
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...to crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.
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But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falli...
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A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old...
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Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, ...
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And so Gollum found them hours later, when he returned, crawling and creeping down the path out of t...
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Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
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Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not eve...
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Yes" Said Gandalf; "for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at ...
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Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.
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Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
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Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
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All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
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Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta!
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it...
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My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of...
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Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart...
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Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
spear shall be sha...
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Where and what are Helm’s Deep and all the rest of it?” said Merry. “I don’t know anything a...
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Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: '...
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Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if...
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I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look c...
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But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe...
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Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we ca...
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Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankles...
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations...
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Už to nemůže trvat dlouho, než skřeti zdolají bránu a všechny nás pobijí nebo zaženou dol...
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Is everything sad going to come untrue?
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Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.
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Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
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What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a...
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Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any ...
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Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frighte...
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All your long years we have been friends. Trust me as you once did, let it go
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El camino sigue y sigue
desde la puerta.
El camino ha ido muy lejos,
y que otros lo s...
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You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
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Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, a...
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All stories are ultimately about the fall.
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As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic m...
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Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
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Forth, and fear no darkness! Arise! Arise, Riders of Theoden! Spears shall be shaken,swords shall be...
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But have a care! It is a bitter blade, and steel serves only those that can wield it. It will cut yo...
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This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am gla...
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No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image...
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, ...
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My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before....
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Short cuts make long delays.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we ...
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It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than i...
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Roads Go Ever On

Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves wher...
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I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies...
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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of ...
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you...
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His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j...
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For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, b...
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If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear...
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Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But G...
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What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it...
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End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The gr...
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he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could ...
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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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Someone else always has to carry on the story.
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Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield...
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Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!"

A cold voice answere...
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Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
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Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago r...
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Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or...
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the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on...
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A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.
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But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires...
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It's like things are in the world. Hopes fail. An end comes. We have only a little time to wait now.
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Grey as a mouse,Big as a house,Nose like a snake,I make the earth shake,As I tramp through the grass...
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Most English-speaking people ... will admit that Cellar Door is ‘beautiful’, especially if disso...
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If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.
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In those days of our tale, there were still some people who had both elves and heroes of the North f...
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to fi...
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My Precioussss!
-Gollum
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Gollum merece la muerte. La merece, sin duda. Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los...
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Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
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Yes, perhaps, yes' said Gollum. 'Sméagol always helps, if they asks - if they asks nicely.'
''...
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It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The ...
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You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were ...
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Si addormentò subito profondamente, dimenticando tutte le sue preoccupazioni fino al mattino. Per l...
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The treacherous are ever distrustful.
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Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?'
As he has ever judged,' said Arag...
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Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?'

A man may do both,' said Ar...
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And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
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And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain F...
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Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle...
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At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. ‘Do not let your hearts ...
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Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars sh...
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For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker t...
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I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
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Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your ey...
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But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.
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He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs we...
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The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many quest...
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The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts...
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And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair...
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wandering in the summer in the woods of Neldoreth [Beren] came upon Lúthien, daughter of Thingol an...
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Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be ver...
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Even when a prohibition in a fairy-story is guessed to be derived from some taboo once practised lon...
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"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkenss." ~
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disappr...
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So it begins.
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Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled ...
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My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thund...
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PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end h...
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Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That i...
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The ...
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Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
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As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with ...
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A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
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The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
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Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!
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Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami...
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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
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For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal...
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We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re...
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I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard...
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It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha...
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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom...
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The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pit...
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I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintellig...
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He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not n...
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Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally...
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Books ought to have good endings.
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I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!
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some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in j...
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Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows
The West Wind goes walking, and abo...
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Journey’s end

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and...
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Short cuts make long delays,’ argued Pippin.
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Ring a ding dillo del! derry, del, my hearties! If you come soon you'll find breakfast on the table....
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Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that div...
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Bilbo’s Last Song

Day is ended, dim my eyes,
But journey long before me lies.
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It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of q...
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is stro...
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End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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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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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!

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Home is behind, the world ahead,And there are many paths to treadThrough 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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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!