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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    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 well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but 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.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
    4504 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
    5912 likes

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  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: fellowship, gamgee, hobbit, samwise, tolkien
    3018 likes

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  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: tolkien
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  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “You can only come to the morning through the shadows.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: lotr
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  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: foolishness, gandalf, reductionism, wisdom
    1174 likes

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  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: gildor
    1221 likes

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  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: war
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  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    2660 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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 Éorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: death-and-dying, fantasy, fighting, gender-roles, pain
    415 likes

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  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “No Victory Without Suffering”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Don't go where I can't follow!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    888 likes

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  • #18
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: gandalf, prophecy, unanticipated
    838 likes

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  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: hobbit, tolkien
    470 likes

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  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
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  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: advice, equivocation, gildor
    572 likes

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  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
    Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
    It lies behind stars and under hills,
    And empty holes it fills,
    It comes first and follows after,
    Ends life, kills laughter.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: darkness, gollum, hobbit, riddle
    1323 likes

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  • #23
    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 way is shut.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    517 likes

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  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: humor
    351 likes

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  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.”
    ― JRR Tolkein
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  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Help means ruin and saving means slaying.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: educational
    72 likes

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  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: inner-strength
    216 likes

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  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The treacherous are ever distrustful.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    238 likes



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