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09bbb16
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Things might have been different, but they could not have been better.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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ade3877
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One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters. You did rightly.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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2a58421
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Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.
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valar
manwë
silmarillion
justice
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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5d76388
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But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning.
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power
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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c62d228
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How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember."
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hobbits
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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da7f7f8
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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 frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
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extraordinary
sf
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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7bdd240
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And here you will stay, Gandalf the Grey, and rest from journeys. For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman the Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!" "I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered."
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saruman
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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4ab0d82
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I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don't, if you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes." Sam fell on his knees, trembling. "Get up, Sam!" Said Gandalf. "I have thought of something better than that. Something to keep you quiet, and..
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secret
gandalf
frodo-baggins
samwise-gamgee
toad
elves
tears
snakes
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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af56e38
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If you wanted to go on from the end of I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as the link. If then you wanted a large tale, the Ring would at once acquire a capital letter; and the Dark Lord would immediately appear. As he did, unasked, on the hearth at Bag End as soon as I came to that point. So the essential Quest started at once. But I met a lot of things along the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I ha..
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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86e8433
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Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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c751c0d
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On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for th..
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celeborn
lothlorien
galadriel
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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45ade09
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Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye!
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tolkien
true-love
middle-earth
sam
lord-of-the-rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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92ffdbe
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End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise." -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings" --
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heaven
jrr-tolkien
lord-of-the-rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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239c208
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A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.
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wisdom
intention
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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40328d0
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I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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4be1ad8
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There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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a6c6811
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The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process or its conclusion. If it had inspired or directed the development of the legend, then certainly the Ring would have been seized and used against Sauron; he would not have been annihilated but enslaved, and Barad-Dur would not have been destroyed but occupied. Saruman, failing to get possession of the Ring, would in the confusion and treacheries of the time have found in Mordor ..
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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fecbcdb
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One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don't know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground--asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and..
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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12e4017
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the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the "nursery," as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused."
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fairy-tales-for-adults
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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15c6066
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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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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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cd763a4
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For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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d60df0c
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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 the e..
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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395b6c1
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Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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ad56280
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The Recovered Thing is not quite the same as the Thing-never-lost. It is often more precious. As Grace, recovered by repentance, is not the same as primitive Innocence, but is not necessarily a poorer or worse state.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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21eda5c
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It is plain that we were meant to go together.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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b1711bf
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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7418cfc
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What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!
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wargs
sam
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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1a06bb5
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But I spoke hastily. We must not be hasty. I have become too hot. I must cool myself and think; for it is easier to shout than to do it.
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inspirational
treebeard
think
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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c598d33
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Be bold, but wary! Keep up your merry hearts, and ride to meet your fortune!
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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aae0895
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Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. "There never was much hope," he answered. "Just a fool's hope, as I have been told."
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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7b3b981
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a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.' Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and sadness.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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056c480
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Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
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tolkien
books
fellowship-of-the-ring
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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f7c0fae
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N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark lord, and something about the end of the world, but please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.
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sam-gamgee
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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b49e471
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Follow what may, great deeds are not lessened in worth.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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07495fa
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So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it fled, almost gay it seemed to be casting off all doubt and care and fear. And even as it winged away into forgetfulness it heard voices, and they seemed to be crying in some forgotten world far above:
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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cca01cc
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Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.
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fantasy
j-r-r-tolkien
fiction-writing
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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6bcafa0
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No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.
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tolkien
true-love
middle-earth
sam
lord-of-the-rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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87de3c8
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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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time
different
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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eabc9a4
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The hands of a king are the hands of a healer.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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232913a
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With a suddenness that startled them all the wizard sprang to his feet. He was laughing! "I have it!" he cried. "Of course, of course! Absurdly simple, like most riddles when you see the answer." Picking up his staff he stood before the rock and said in a clear voice: The star shone out briefly and faded again. Then silently a great doorway was outlined, though not a crack or joint had been visible before. Slowly it divided in the middle a..
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moria
gandalf
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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ab112d8
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Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream. But I count you blessed [...] for your loss you suffer of your own free will, and you might have chosen otherwise. But you have not forsaken your companions, and the least reward that you shall have is that the memory of Lothlorien shall remain ever clear and uns..
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memories
loyalty
memory
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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fbf216d
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I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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fd427d6
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Now when Turin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.
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fate
doom
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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5900e39
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But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.
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friendship-and-love
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J.R.R. Tolkien |