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please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

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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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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 have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the ...more

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I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the i...more

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Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant o...more

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Under the Mountain dark and tallThe King has come unto his hall!His foe is dead,the Worm of Dread,And ever so his foes shall fall.The sword is sharp, ...more

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The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.

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Though mortal Men have little life beside the span of the Elves, they would rather spend it in battle than fly or submit. The defiance of Húrin Thalio...more

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Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

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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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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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Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

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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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All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.J.R...more