J. R. R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)

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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

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I don't deny it," said Frodo, looking at Sam, who was now grinning. "I don't deny it, but I'll never believe you are sleeping again, whether you snore or not. I shall kick you hard to make sure.

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May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

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Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over wood and mountain tall.

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Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!

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He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

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What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.

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Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

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My dear Frodo!' exclaimed Gandalf. 'Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch.

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

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I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't right to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me.

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There is a seed of courage hidden (often deeply, it is true) in the heart of the fattest and most timid hobbit, waiting for some final and desperate danger to make it grow.

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Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them

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Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves. "It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned," said Gimli. "I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves," said Legolas. "I have heard both," said Gandalf.

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Oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

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That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.

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There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.

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Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

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He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

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O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

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Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!

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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

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When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.

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All that is gold does not glitter;
not all those that wander are lost.

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