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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: faramir
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: eowyn, fantasy, lord-of-the-rings, éowyn
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: dreams, frodo, west
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Éorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: death-and-dying, fantasy, fighting, gender-roles, pain
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  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: farewell, goodbyes, life, parting, sad
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  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: humor
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
    tags: music, ocean, sea, water
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  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien On Fairy-stories
    tags: fairy, fairy-tale
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  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”
    ― Tolkein
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
    tags: chance, help, unexpected
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  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Journey’s end

    In western lands beneath the Sun
    The flowers may rise in Spring,
    The trees may bud, the waters run,
    The merry finches sing.
    Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
    And swaying branches bear
    The Elven-stars as jewels white
    Amid their branching hair.

    Though here at journey's end I lie
    In darkness buried deep,
    Beyond all towers strong and high,
    Beyond all mountains steep,
    Above all shadows rides the Sun
    And Stars for ever dwell:
    I will not say the Day is done,
    Nor bid the Stars farewell.J.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: life, poem
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  • #17
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!"

    "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: breakfast, hobbits, humorous
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  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “If you are speaking of music...it is of all subjects my delight. There are few people in England I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. And so would Anne, if her health would have allowed her to apply. I am confident that she would have performed delightfully. - Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice”
    ― Jane Austen
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  • #19
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
    Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
    Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
    Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
    They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
    The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
    Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
    Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: rohan, theoden, tolkien
    614 likes



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