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Did he say:Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!?No,indeed!He said:Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick -Pippin Took

Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took

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Names, Want, Pleasant Surprises
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Rocks, Elbows, Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.407, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.

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Gone, Fairs
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" "No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!

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Eagles, Pieces, Forks
J. R. R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1982). “The Hobbit Or There and Back Again”, Del Rey

I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple!

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Moving, Smell, Apples
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore.

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Pain, Hands, Looks
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.532, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

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Voice, Calling, World
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.571, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.

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Dwarves, Long, Gold
J. R. R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: Illustrated by Alan Lee”, p.36, HarperCollins UK

I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate. . . If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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Song, Cheer, Father
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

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Fall, Toes, Claims
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Yes, they are elves," Legolas said. "and they say that you breathe so loud they could shoot you in the dark." Sam hastily covered his mouth.

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Dark, Mouths, Breathe

'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?' 'So the minstrels say,' said Éomer. 'Then let us defend it, and hope!' said Aragorn.

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Taken, Men, Said
"The Lord of the Rings: One Volume".

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

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Long, Despair, Cheerful
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.436, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

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Mean, Break, Said
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she was now suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone.

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Wise, Morning, Kings
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

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Mean, Kind, Cooks
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

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Enemy, Mountain, Ruins
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

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On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel... Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.

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Beautiful, Memories, Eye

Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Lying, Names, Sake

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 saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.

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Gay, Laughing, Joy
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.742, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

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Land, Shadow, Path
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.286, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day..." JRR Tolkien, Letter # 174

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Tired, Night, Hours In The Day

The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

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Voice, Looks, Way
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.780, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

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Adventure, Stories, Unexpected
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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