in that pleasant corner of the world they plied their well-ordered business of living, and they heeded less and less the world outside where dark things moved, until they came to think that peace and plenty were the rule in Middle-earth and
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“If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!”
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― Against a Dark Background
“he who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly.”
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― The Dark Ages - Book I of III
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― Matter
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