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When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.

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I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are c...more

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Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning...more

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If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-g...more

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Even when a prohibition in a fairy-story is guessed to be derived from some taboo once practised long ago, it has probably been preserved in the later...more

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They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the wi...more

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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

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the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated t...more

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The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and sta...more

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Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that i...more

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It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the "picture" end only with t...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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Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

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Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure t...more

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That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with i...more