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- Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not…
- They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.
- It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward…
- I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that…
- Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel.…
- I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from…
- Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet;…
- For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.
- Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And…
- If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to…
- I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic…
- His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his…
- Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.
- Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
- Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee…
- Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from…
- Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon…
- He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark…
- And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she…
- I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and…
- Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your…
- I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.
- He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was…
- But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap…
- Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea…
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