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- Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in…
- No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
- I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful…
- They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially,…
- Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say,…
- What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he…
- Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that…
- But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word…
- She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else…
- Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from…
- Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but…
- And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared…
- We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is…
- I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the…
- 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,…
- 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…
- We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true…
- A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
- That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands.…
- Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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