"His face was sad and stern because of……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock."
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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