J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

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Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

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All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

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It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

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