The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. - J.R.R. Tolkien
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth. - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Road goes ever on and on / Down from the door where it began. / Now far ahead the Road has gone, / And I must follow, if I can. - J.R.R. Tolkien
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Such is often the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Still round the corner there may wait / A new road or a secret gate / And though I oft have passed them by / A day will come at last when I / Shall take the hidden paths that run / West of the Moon, East of the Sun. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning or that it is a morning to be good on? - J.R.R. Tolkien
Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. - J.R.R. Tolkien
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. - J.R.R. Tolkien
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