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23cadce
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Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.
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riddle
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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4e3e988
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Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count."
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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dcb2282
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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ba940a5
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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. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of ..
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frodo
gandalf
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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0a503e9
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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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inspirational
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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e6a0340
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And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?"
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humorous
hobbits
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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cb94e1b
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The treacherous are ever distrustful.
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fantasy
philosophy
truth
inspirational
gandalf
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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6932f4f
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Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
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unexpected
help
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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2e362df
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For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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4d52033
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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 that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would rather have stayed there in peace.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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fa29cb9
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Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance."
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mines-of-moria
pippin
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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5735de7
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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
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inscription
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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407c8f4
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.
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looking
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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00ff25c
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Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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1b68433
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A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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3d69555
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Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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755407d
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In rode the Lord of the Nazgul. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgul, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a..
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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5d0217c
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The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially "escapist," nor "fugitive." In its fairy-tale -- or otherworld -- setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny t..
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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be7c035
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Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply."
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tolkien
hobbit
farewell
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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b40fd34
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I wonder if people will ever say, "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring." And they'll say, "Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?" "Yes, m'boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot."
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tolkien
sam-gamgee
middle-earth
lord-of-the-rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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c66745a
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You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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5e9901b
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What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight."
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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7c4e6bc
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Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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32a17a3
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That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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e0670e4
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The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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ea5bed6
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Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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9e81523
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history - true or feigned- with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
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literature
books
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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2d08dc3
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For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.
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evenstar-luthien
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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51e9508
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Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).
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inspirational
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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229784b
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Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say 'out of the frying-pan into the fire' in the same sort of uncomfortable situations."
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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cc1c44d
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All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.
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interdependence
worth
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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9ed857d
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But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?
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Éowyn
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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7e77ed2
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His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.
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tolkien
smaug
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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2906d18
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If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a..
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funny
humor
invention-of-golf
hobbits
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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846ecff
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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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the-hobbit
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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668ab7f
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But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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inspirational
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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57c2d13
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Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Luthien
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light
sorrow
joy
luthien
shadow
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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464f7e5
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Bilbo's Last Song Day is ended, dim my eyes, But journey long before me lies. Farewell, friends! I hear the call. The ship's beside the stony wall. Foam is white and waves are grey; Beyond the sunset leads my way. Foam is salt, the wind is free; I hear the rising of the Sea. Farewell, friends! The sails are set, The wind is east, the moorings fret. Shadows long before me lie, Beneath the ever-bending sky, But islands lie behind the Sun That..
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tolkien
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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a7c50ef
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Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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670edd7
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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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fantasy
singing
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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83f6e09
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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 came with a green flicker into his eyes. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time..
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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58c025f
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This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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ad57b9f
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It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam. "But I am going to Mordor." "I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you."
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samwise-gamgee
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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0833b17
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You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |