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- American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
- Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope…
- So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it…
- It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where…
- What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed…
- But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put…
- For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they…
- 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…
- 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…
- They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and…
- Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into…
- It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.
- The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions…
- All the same, I should like it all plain and clear," said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried…
- There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk…
- Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep…
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