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Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me! Here am I, naughty little fly; you are fat and lazy. You cannot trap me, though you try, in your

Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me! Here am I, naughty little fly; you are fat and lazy. You cannot trap me, though you try, in your cobwebs crazy.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Sweet, Crazy, Naughty
J R R Tolkien (1973). “The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings”

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
Real, Tunnels, Waiting
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood." - Legolas

J. R. R. Tolkien
Archer, Giving, Wish

Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Men, May, Heed

Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall

J. R. R. Tolkien
Fall, Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Wine, Bottles, Kind

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Real, Believe, Book
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun

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Running, Moon, May
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Kings, Men, Long
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.710, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Lightning
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.

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Darkness, Dawn
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.523, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mind your P's and Q's.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Mind
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

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Enemy, Woe, Trails
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.293, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size

J. R. R. Tolkien
Dull Days, Facts, Size
Letter to Deborah Webster, 25 Oct. 1958

Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories.

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Song, Book, Mean

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

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Heart, Dark, Wrath
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell

J. R. R. Tolkien
Valleys, Jolly

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Mean, Light, People
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.852, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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!

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Army, Victory, Comfort
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.544, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

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Sea, Land, Tree
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.

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Air, Eagles, Numbers

Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Farewell, May, Where You Are
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.308, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Pain, Dark, Evil
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.937, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Country, Evil, Magic
"The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings".

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Men, Age, World
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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