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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

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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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You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

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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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It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,It lies behind stars and under hills,And empty holes it fills,It comes first and fo...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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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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The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starvi...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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Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

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Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty...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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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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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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No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic misha...more