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Yet the Duke of Wellington was surely right when he said that a man might as well tell the history of a ball, meaning a dance, as write the story of a battle.
“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a lot of relatives prying around, and a string of confounded visitors hanging on the bell. I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“The faith that limitless technological progress will finally solve the problems of limitless contamination seems to depend upon some sort of neo-religion.”
― The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
― The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings
“And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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