

“And while you’ve been trapessing in foreign parts, chasing Black Men up mountains from what my Sam says, though what for he don’t make clear, they’ve been and dug up Bagshot Row and ruined my taters!”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings

“And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end. ”
― So Long a Letter
― So Long a Letter

“Now the Children of Ilúvatar are Elves and Men, the Firstborn and the Followers.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
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