"I would have things as they were in……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard’s pupil. But if doom denies this to me, then I will have naught: neither life diminished, nor love halved, nor honour abated."
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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