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

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Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

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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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But have a care! It is a bitter blade, and steel serves only those that can wield it. It will cut your hand as willingly as aught else.

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Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the fre...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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All stories are ultimately about the fall.

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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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Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

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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.

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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.

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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

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True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.

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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

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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