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- Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth…
- The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it…
- How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you…
- His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He…
- The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if…
- he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private…
- Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds…
- Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of…
- Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under…
- Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which…
- And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of…
- Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had…
- He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything;…
- Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen…
- We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
- And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great…
- But when I say free, I mean free: free from bond, of chain or command:to go where you will, even, even to Mordor Saruman, if…
- Far over the misty mountains grim To dungeons deep and caverns dim We must away, ere break of day, To win our harps and gold…
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