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- Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
- Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There…
- Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on…
- I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a…
- My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts…
- Great heart will not be denied.
- 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…
- I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament...
- 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…
- 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…
- It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story,…
- What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance…
- The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may…
- Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you…
- Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the…
- Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and…
- We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.
- 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;…
- Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of…
- If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to…
- But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so…
- A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might…
- He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every…
- 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…
- It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want…
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