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grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, d...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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If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.

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I wisely started with a map.

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In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in j...more

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A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the ...more

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This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

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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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As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .

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Yes" Said Gandalf; "for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes...more

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Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; ...more

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Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and u...more

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Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

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When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold;When woodland halls are green a...more