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The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Air, Smell, Water

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

I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Rivers, Water, World
J. R. R. Tolkien (2009). “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King”, p.76, HarperCollins UK

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

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Laughter, Land, Water
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.640, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Moon, Fire, Water
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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