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Some Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.
- Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that…
- Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land…
- There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been…
- Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal…
- 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,…
- But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must…
- 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…
- There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more…
- How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there…
- There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
- Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause…
- There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
- There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground…
- Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest…
- No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring…
- 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…
- 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…
- Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at…
- And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years,…
- I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result…
- Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet…
- But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the…
- Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal…
- Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That…
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