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- 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…
- 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,…
- Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land, no…
- I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of…
- 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…
- Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
- 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,…
- Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope…
- Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing.…
- All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade,…
- The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light…
- I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
- 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…
- 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.…
- Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those…
- Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides…
- It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too…
- 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…
- Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to…
- Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’…
- If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow…
- If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely,…
- Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will…
- We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes,…
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