"Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting."
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
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He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…
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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
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It could just be a shift on the axis.
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