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The road goes ever on and on
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No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
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He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone ...
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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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It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange...
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Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of l...
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The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS
I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
NATHAN KRESS
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
PETER DINKLAGE
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Through shadow, to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight."- "Excerpt from Edge Of Night ...
JRR TOLKEIN
I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great ...
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There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and...
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How are we supposed to get in?”
Stella kicked the metal shutter.
“Fool of a Took!” ...
MICHELLE HODKIN
Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
IAN MCKELLEN
I'm sorry I brought this upon you, my boy. I'm sorry you must carry this burden. I'm sorry for every...
LORD OF THE RINGS
All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old who are strong do not wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS
I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
LORD OF THE RINGS
Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
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LORD OF THE RINGS
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to und...
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I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.
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Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tem...
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My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring
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Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all wh...
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The mines are no place for a pony, even one so brave as Bill. Bye-bye Bill.
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They will find the Ring, and kill the one who carries it.
LORD OF THE RINGS
So you have chosen.....Death.
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...But the hearts of men are easily corrupted... And the ring of power has a will of its own.
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PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end her...
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Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
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But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can ...
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It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"W...
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It is but a shadow and thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek.
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But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Gollum merece la muerte. La merece, sin duda. Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los...
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Frodo did not destroy the Ring; Gollum did. This is something he would always be reminded of, especi...
STEVE BIVANS
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Elrond,” Bruce said. “The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It’s the meeting w...
ANDY WEIR
No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image...
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The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro...
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I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies gr...
RONDA ROUSEY
The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every da...
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It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
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Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
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I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE
You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
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It's the deep breath before the plunge.
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Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they ...
JUNOT DíAZ
I tried reading The Lord of the Rings books. I got about fifty pages in... I got tired of reading th...
MIKE STOKLASA
I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once.

"El...
JIM BUTCHER
He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs we...
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Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
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Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if...
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You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if y...
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Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that div...
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Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.
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Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strang...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver...
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There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
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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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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a...
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I wonder if people will ever say, "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring." And they'll say, "Yes, that...
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I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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Lord of the Rings.
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Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your ey...
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Lord of the Rings ... Bobby.
ELIJAH WOOD
God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
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I am saying the choices we make in captivity are not always the choices we make in freedom. And thus...
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Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobb...
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Not all that have fallen are vanquished.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those...
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MARGO LANAGAN
Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror di...
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My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy...
WENDY FROUD
People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.
C.J. ROBERTS
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,
APOLLO 13
It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.
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Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is intensely... landscaped. ...
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Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived...
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. I...
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Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has t...
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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
LORD ACTON
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON
We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape...
PHIL LORD
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD
Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
LORD PALMERSTON
It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of t...
LORD NORTHCLIFFE
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
LORD BYRON
True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, an...
LORD SHAFTESBURY
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year im...
LORD BYRON
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRON
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON
Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON
Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD BYRON
And when we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
LORD SAMUEL
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
LORD MELBOURNE
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in...
LORD MELBOURNE
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
LORD MELBOURNE
The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes characte...
LORD SHAFTESBURY
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with ...
LORD ROSEBERY
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD
God help the patient.
LORD MANSFIELD
The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
LORD SHAWCROSS
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
LORD MELBOURNE
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ...
LORD MELBOURNE
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
LORD SHAFTESBURY
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
LORD NELSON
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor,...
SHIRLEY LORD
It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
LORD MELBOURNE
Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the gre...
LORD MELBOURNE