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

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Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass growsThe West Wind goes walking, and about the walls it goes.What news from the West, oh wanderi...more

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And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun...more

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I wish Merry was here," he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as he watched the enemy come charging to the assault....more

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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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Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

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Have you thought of an ending?""Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.""Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do...more

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The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before the fall...

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Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

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He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself.

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How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that g...more

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War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow f...more