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0b0a9f4
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If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.
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loyalty
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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c613156
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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3155b93
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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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hope
gandalf
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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5ff57f5
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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dissipation
old-age
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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188db1b
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PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: 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. PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what? GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise. PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad. GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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2c5d07f
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so -- in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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c4feea1
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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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wisdom
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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562012c
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You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon."
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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9ab0292
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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23bb0d8
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Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter."
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perseverance
moving-forward
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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8436b3d
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Don't go where I can't follow!
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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ef9eeb1
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In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying."
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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33c8fde
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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 those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
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future-inspirational
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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cb85a87
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But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.
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trust
loyalty
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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cc98d67
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You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass."
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orc
guardianship
gandalf
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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a0eb220
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For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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unanticipated
prophecy
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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e10014b
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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ad70125
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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.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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8da4881
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Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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sorrow
gandalf
leaving
goodbye
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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0ba00a7
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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tolkien
bad-reviews
boring
opinions
reviews
complain
lotr
literary-criticism
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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d52b789
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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heroism
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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fb24fca
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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d2539e9
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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fcfbbdd
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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lord-of-the-rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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3789529
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What does your heart tell you?
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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9f6f9fe
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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hobbit-talk
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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c45f673
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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704679a
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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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3942335
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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f2dadf1
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So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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steadfastness
gandalf
truths
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J.R.R Tolkien |
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d1aa333
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Onen i-estel edain, u-chebin estel anim
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hope
inspirational
others
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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fe122d3
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Fly you fools
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guardianship
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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28256f5
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Onen i-estel edain, u-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dunedain, I have kept none for myself.) (Gilraen's linnod)
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inspirational
others
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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f82ed0d
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But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.
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tolkien
Éowyn
middle-earth
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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0f6c6f5
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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equivocation
gildor
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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3e98058
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Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course, but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring!" And they will say: "Yes, that's one of my favourite stories. Frodo was very brave, wasn't he, dad?" "Yes, my boy, the famousest of the hobbits, and th..
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tales
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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30d6759
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All's well that ends better.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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a54f590
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Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood..
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tolkien
theoden
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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c11260d
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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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ca1a2ee
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The road goes ever on and on
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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2858828
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Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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ac79e97
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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 Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.
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frodo
west
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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f6eec2a
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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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fantasy
Éowyn
lord-of-the-rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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3206aa4
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All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Erol and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.
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gender-roles
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J.R.R. Tolkien |