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1. "Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

2. "For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

3. "he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff' could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

4. "But it may be the hard part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

5. "The dragon is witheredHis bones are now crumbled;His armour is shivered,His splendour is humbled!Though sword shall be rustedAnd throne and crown perishWith strength that men trustedAnd wealth that they cherish,Here grass is still growing,And leaves are yet swinging,The white water flowing,And elves are yet singingCome! Tra-la-la-lally!Come back to the Valley!The stars are far brighterThan gems without measure,The moon is far whiterThan silver in treasure:The fire is more shiningOn hearth in the gloamingThan gold won by mining,So why go a-roaming?O! Tra-la-la-lallyCome back to the Valley!O! Where are you going,So late in returning?The river is flowing,The stars are all burning!O! Wither so laden,So sad and so dreary?Here elf and elf-maidenNow welcome the wearyWith Tra-la-la-lallyCome back to the Valley,Tra-la-la-lallyFa-la-la-lallyFa-la!" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

6. "Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

7. "But to this Orc-work such a life as we lead has brought us. Lawless and fruitless all our deeds have been, serving only ourselves, and feeding hate in our hearts." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

8. "When evening in the Shire was greyhis footsteps on the Hill were heard;before the dawn he went awayon journey long without a word" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

9. "A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

10. "Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

11. "Clap! Snap! the black crack!Grip, grab! Pinch, nab!And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad!Clash, crash! Crush, smash!Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs!Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad!Swish, smack! Whip crack!Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat!Work, work! Nor dare to shirk,While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh,Round and round far underground Below, my lad!" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

12. "Aure entuluva! day shall come again!" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

13. "He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

14. "But he desired rather to subdue to his will both Elves and Men, envying the gifts with which Ilúvatar promised to endow them; and he wished himself to have subjects and servants, and to be called Lord, and to be a master over other wills." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

15. "It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

16. "A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

17. "But fairest of all was the great white gem, which the dwarves had found beneath the roots of the Mountain, the Heart of the Mountain, the Arkenstone of Thrain." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

18. "Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it were known that hobbits had such hides, all the hunters of Middle Earth would be riding to the Shire." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

19. "The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

20. "At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

21. "All his court were cast down in slumber, and all the fires faded and were quenched; but the Silmarils in the crown on Morgoth's head blazed forth suddenly with a radiance of white flame; and the burden of that crown and of the jewels bowed down his head, as though the world were set upon it, laden with a weight of care, of fear, and of desire, that even the will of Morgoth could not support. Then Lúthien catching up her winged robe sprang into the air, and her voice came dropping down like rain into pools, profound and dark. She cast her cloak before his eyes, and set upon him a dream, dark as the outer Void where once he walked alone." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

22. "To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying,The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;For our days are ending and our years failing.I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

23. "Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

24. "Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

25. "My Precious!" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

26. "In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

27. "Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

28. "A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

29. "Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

30. "Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

31. "And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

32. "Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

33. "We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

34. "Celtic 'is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come . . . Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

35. "For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?- Aragorn about Éowyn" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

36. "Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

37. "And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan.- Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

38. "There is still hope." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

39. "My body is broken. I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

40. "We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

41. "And what do you wish?' he said at last.'That what should be shall be,' she answered." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

42. "For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

43. "That's done it! Now I've rung the front-door bell!" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

44. "They seem a bit above my likes and dislikes, so to speak," answered Sam slowly. "It don't seem to matter what I think about them. They are quite different from what I expected — so old and young, and so gay and sad, as it were." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

45. "I am like a burglar that can't get away, but must go on miserably burgling the same house day after day.—Bilbo Baggins" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

46. "They walked as it were in a black vapour wrought of veritable darkness itself that, as it was breathed, brought blindness not only to eyes but to the mind, so that even the memory of colours and of forms and of any light faded out of thought. Night had always been, and always would be, and night was all." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

47. "For suddenly above him far and faint his song was taken up, and a voice answering called to him. Maedhros it was that sang amid his torment. But Fingon climbed to the foot of the precipice where his kinsman hung; and then he could go no farther, and he wept when he saw the cruel device of Morgoth. Maedhros therefore, being in anguish without hope, begged Fingon to shoot him with his bow; and Fingon strung an arrow, and bent his bow. And seeing no better hope he cried to Manwe, saying: 'O King to whom birds are dear, speed now this feathered shaft, and recall some pity for the Noldor in their need!'....Now, even as Fingon bent his bow, there flew down from the high airs Thorondor, King of Eagles, mightiest of all birds that have ever been, whose outstretched wings spanned thirty fathoms; and staying Fingon's hand he took him up, and bore him to the face of the rock where Maethros hung." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

48. "Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

49. "He heard himself crying out: Never, never! Or was it: Verily I come, I come to you? He could not tell. Then as a flash from some other point of power there came to his mind another thought: Take it off! Take it off! Fool, take it off! Take off the Ring! The two powers strove in him. For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented. Suddenly he was aware of himself again. Frodo, neither the Voice nor the Eye: free to choose, and with one remaining instant in which to do so. He took the Ring off his finger." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

50. "Quite a merry gathering!...What's that? Tea! No thank you! A little red wine, I think for me." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

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