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It's a dangerous business, Frodo,
going out your door. You step onto
the road, and if you don't keep your
feet, there's no knowing where you
might be swept off to.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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May the wind under your wings bear you
where the sun sails and the moon walks.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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The wide world is all about you:
you can fence yourselves in, but
you cannot for ever fence it out.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out
of your calculations, if you live near him.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
for they are subtle and quick to anger.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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The world is indeed full of peril, and
in it there are many dark places; but
still there is much that is fair, and
though in all lands love is now mingled
with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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May it be a light to you in dark places,
when all other lights go out.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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I will not say: do not weep;
for not all tears are an evil.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Never laugh at live dragons.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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If more of us valued food and cheer
and song above hoarded gold,
it would be a merrier world.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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I don't know half of you half as well as
I should like; and I like less than half
of you half as well as you deserve.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know
But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door.
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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where there's life there's hope.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Don't go where I can't follow!
Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We'll wander back and home to bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that
it is a good morning whether I want it or not;
or that you feel good this morning; or that it
is a morning to be good on?
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
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War must be, while we defend our lives against a
destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love
the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow
for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory.
I love only that which they defend.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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I am glad you are here with me.
Here at the end of all things, Sam.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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