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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!
- 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…
- Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to…
- 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…
- "We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like…
- 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…
- Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think!…
- 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…
- Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.
- Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and…
- There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty…
- 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…
- 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…
- Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll…
- Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places…
- A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to…
- You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at…
- Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!
- And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed…
- 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…
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