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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and 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.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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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
    “Deserves it! I daresay he does. 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.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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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
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: hope, inspirational, love
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  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Still round the corner there may wait
    A new road or a secret gate
    And though I oft have passed them by
    A day will come at last when I
    Shall take the hidden paths that run
    West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: books, poetry
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  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: friendship, frodo
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  • #12
    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
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    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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  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: bravery, courage
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  • #15
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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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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  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: first-sentence, opening-lines
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: despair, elf, hope, legolas
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  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: cheerfulness, faith, faramir, optimism
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  • #21
    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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  • #22
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
    To look ahead,' said he.
    And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
    Looking behind,' said he.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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  • #23
    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
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  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: evil, future-inspirational
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  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. ”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: aragorn, loyalty
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  • #26
    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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  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “No Victory Without Suffering”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales
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  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.”
    ― Tolkien J.R.R., The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: comforting
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Short cuts make long delays.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: humour, life-lesson, pippin, proverbs, shortcuts
    1419 likes



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