Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!


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Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!
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In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
"W...
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And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word...
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I don’t like anything here at all.” said Frodo, “step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and...
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Where there's life there's hope.
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Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That i...
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The ...
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It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange...
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Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm an...
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PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end h...
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Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like...
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Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your home...
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Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. ...
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
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All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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The way is shut.
Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not...
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I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard...
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He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
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Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
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Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
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his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
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Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the
story was already writ...
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Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
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Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the ...
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I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind ther...
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It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha...
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The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through ...
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
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There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...
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The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastr...
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If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ...
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal...
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And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of ...
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A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessin...
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Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi...
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Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f...
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Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami...
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Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
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Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b...
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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
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evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une...
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I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family o...
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The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
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For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ...
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Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta!
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I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one...
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Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
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till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel...
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I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it...
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You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming...
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pit...
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You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re...
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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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We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re...
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...
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This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ...
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a...
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Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no.
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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom...
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We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor...
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...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
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But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought ...
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