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Experience Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often…
- But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must…
- There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite…
- There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground…
- I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I…
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