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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

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Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?""Po-ta-toes!" said Sam.

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Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.

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Hullo!” said Merry. “So that’s what is bothering you? Now, Pippin my lad, don’t forget Gildor’s saying—the one Sam used to quote: Do not meddle in the...more

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My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they b...more

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In describing a fairy story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment, reviewers frequently indulge in such waggeries as...more

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please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

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...and for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.

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A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be sp...more

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I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the ...more

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I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the i...more

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Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant o...more

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Under the Mountain dark and tallThe King has come unto his hall!His foe is dead,the Worm of Dread,And ever so his foes shall fall.The sword is sharp, ...more

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The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.