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...and for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.

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I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. -Frodo Baggins

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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a...more

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Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

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A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be sp...more

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I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I u...more

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Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might s...more

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It's the deep breath before the plunge.

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

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His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!

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And she answered: 'All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you...more

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Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.

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Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is...more

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There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

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Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful.