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“Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Not all those who wander are lost”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Be bold, but wary! Keep up your merry hearts, and ride to meet your fortune!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror,”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I found not being able to use a pen or pencil as defeating as the loss of her beak would be to a hen.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings