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In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.

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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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This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

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I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don't, ...more

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For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making ke...more

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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