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Talk Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat…
- A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
- When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was…
- This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want…
- Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.
- No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
- I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
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