The Fellowship of the Ring Quotes

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Not all those who wander are lost.

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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.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

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Short cuts make long delays.

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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

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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.

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Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.

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Handsome is as handsome does

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A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

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Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?" "It will do well, if it ever c...

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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of reade...

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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.

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I will take the ring," he said," though I do not know the way." --Frodo Baggins

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So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or on walls, or gathered into the museum at Michel Delving. The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no imme...

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