"He did not go much further, but sat……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler."
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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