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What was childhood if not a passage from light to dark, of the soul’s slow drowning in an ocean of ordinary matter?
“It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterwards were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.”
― The Hobbit
― The Hobbit
“Justice is a human concept, as flawed as any. There is no reliable justice in this world and, given human nature, never can be. Politics, bigotry, envy, ignorance . . . Those forces and others redefine justice day by day, until it means something different to everyone—until it means nothing at all.”
― Red Rain
― Red Rain
“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.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“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.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“It’s children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
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