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“If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“The dragon is withered,
His bones are now crumbled;
His armour is shivered,
His splendour is humbled!
Though sword shall be rusted,
And throne and crown perish
With strength that men trusted
And wealth that they cherish,
Here grass is still growing,
And leaves are yet swinging,
The white water flowing,
And elves are yet singing
Come! Tra-la-la-lally!
Come back to the valley!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Lazy Lob and crazy Cob
are weaving webs to wind me.
I am far more sweet than other meat,
but still they cannot find me!

Here am I, naughty little fly;
you are fat and lazy.
You cannot trap me, though you try,
in your cobwebs crazy.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again