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The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Lying, Adventure, Hands

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Dragons, Ifs

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead

J. R. R. Tolkien
Lying, Future, Adventure

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Stories, Ends
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Share, Difficult
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You aren't nearly through this adventure yet.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Sunshine, Ponies
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Adventures make one late for supper.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Late, Supper

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Thinking, Use
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Dark, Mist
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Dinner, Late
"The Hobbit".

We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Water, Trying
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Dragons, Laughing
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Want
1955 Gollum.The Two Towers, ch.1.

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Use, Nasty
"The Hobbit". 75th Anniversary Edition,

The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

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

Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Morning, Sorry, Adventure

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Movie Love, Share
"Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", www.imdb.com. 2012.

I'm going on an adventure!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Adventure, Going On An Adventure
"Fictional character: Bilbo Baggins". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", 2013.

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

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

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!

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

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