“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
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J.R.R. Tolkien quotes
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that
“Not all those who wander are lost.”