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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I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.
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One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
J.R.R. Tolkien in The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
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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 wants to know about.
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Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.
J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion
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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 wants to know about.'
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The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
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Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings
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His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit
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