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He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself fryi...more

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They made for his noise far quicker than he had expected. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever like being calle...more

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His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they h...more

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As a lord was heldfor the strength of his body and stoutness of heart.Much lore he learned, and loved wisdombut fortune followed him in few desires;of...more

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Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.

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Slowly the lights of the torches in front of Merry flicked and went out, and he was walking in a darkness; and he thought: ‘This is a tunnel leading t...more

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Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driv...more

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There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his h...more

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How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that g...more

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The love of Arda was set in your hearts by Ilúvatar, and he does not plant to no purpose.

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But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever ...more

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These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways ...more

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But Ilúvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony; and h...more

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Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. R...more

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No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring ...more