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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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And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all me...more

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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 that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

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Then the dwarves forgot their joy and their confident boasts of a moment before and cowered down in fright. Smaug was still to be reckoned with. It do...more

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Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he sa...more

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Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swi...more

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I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard!

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What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing gre...more

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Nienor ran on into the woods until she was spent, and then fell, and slept, and awoke; and it was a sunlit morning, and she rejoiced in light as it we...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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I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

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I would venture to say that approaching the Christian Story from this direction, it has long been my feeling (a joyous feeling) that God redeemed the ...more