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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: fantasy, humor, scifi
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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 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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  • #6
    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
    “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
    “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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  • #9
    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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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: road
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  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
    Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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    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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  • #15
    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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  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: books, philosophy
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  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
    “But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: hurt, salvation
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
    "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: caged, fear, gender-roles
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Courage is found in unlikely places.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: bravery, courage
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: benediction, gift, light
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  • #23
    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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  • #25
    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
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  • #26
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe
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  • #27
    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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  • #28
    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
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  • #29
    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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  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: hobbit, tolkien
    472 likes



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