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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Ah well. Just know: don’t turn away from a path simply because you do not think you deserve to tread its ground.”
― Delemhach, The House Witch

“You think that is weakness?! Kingdoms go to war not because they are strong, but because they are weak! Peace is strength,”
― Delemhach, The House Witch

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“You’re a booby,” said William. “Booby yerself!” said Tom.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

“Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don’t look like mutton again tomorrer,” said one of the trolls.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Fool of a Took!’ he growled.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss. ‘Fly, you fools!’ he cried, and was gone.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring