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Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole

Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

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Adventure, Hands, Luck
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

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Birthday, Party, Special
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.

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Spring, Heart, Rocks
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1035, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Over hill and under hill

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Hills, Middle Earth, Misty Mountains
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley!

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Men, Dragons, White
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!

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Lullaby, Goblin
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

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Thinking, Long, Enough
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.

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Desire, Looks, Hats
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.487, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears.

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Grateful, Eye, People
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.366, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.

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Hate, Lying, Long
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch

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Light, Sky, Shadow

Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!

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Wings, Wraith

We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just

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Wise, Names, Littles
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.674, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.

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Daughter, Dark, Men
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.823, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!

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Kings, Father, Arrows
J R R Tolkien (1973). “The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings”

I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let it be judged. But forgive me! It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other.

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Blood, Written, Thick
"The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien".

Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!

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J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.

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Heart, Night, Sea
J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

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War, Pleasure, Delicate
"A Secret Vice". Lecture in 1931. "The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays". Book edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1983.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

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Roots, Tree, Mountain
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.

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Men, Desire, Pity
"The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

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Beautiful, Laughter, Fall

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

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Fire, Escaping, Uncomfortable Situations
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

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Halloween, Distance, Warrior
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

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Drinking, Alive, Mail
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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