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What do you fear, lady? [Aragorn] asked. A cage, [Éowyn] said. To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Fear, Age, Desire

We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Dark, Water, Age
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Men, Age, Three
"Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ", www.imdb.com. 2002.

Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Running, Long Ago, Age
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Song, Age, Stories
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.691, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Years, Age, Kind
Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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