“So was I,’ said Frodo, ‘and so I am. We’re going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is all too likely that some will say at this point: “Shut the book now, dad; we don’t want to read any more.”’ ‘Maybe,’ said Sam, ‘but I wouldn’t be one to say that. Things done and over and made into part of the great tales are different. Why, even Gollum might be good in a tale, better than he is to have by you, anyway. And he used to like tales himself once, by his own account. I wonder if he thinks he’s the hero or the villain?”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“These too in their time shall find that all that they do redounds at the end only to the glory of my work.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
“Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Maedhros did deeds of surpassing valour, and the Orcs fled before his face; for since his torment upon Thangorodrim his spirit burned like a white fire within, and he was as one that returns from the dead.”
― The Silmarillion: An Epic Fantasy Collection of Myth and Legend from Middle-earth
― The Silmarillion: An Epic Fantasy Collection of Myth and Legend from Middle-earth
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