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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Novelist
January 3
, 1892 -
September 2
, 1973
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Wait
,
New
,
Still
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Deep
,
Strong
,
Old
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Lost
,
Wander
,
Those
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Faith
,
Road
,
He
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Food
,
Song
,
More
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Time
,
Decide
,
Given
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Never
,
Started
,
Longest
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Strength
,
Been
,
Use
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Golden
,
Hid
,
Lid
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. Tolkien
World
,
About
,
Wide
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. Tolkien
Ending
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Snow
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Even
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Courage
,
Places
,
Unlikely
Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Short
,
Delays
,
Make
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Leave
,
Dragon
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Does
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Yes
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Will
,
Counsel
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Die
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Give
,
Some
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Me
,
Pen
,
Hen
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Deserve
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Like
,
Half
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Art
,
Religious
,
Contain
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Stupid
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Been
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Inhabitants
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Natural
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Based
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Particularly
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Never
,
Always
,
Getting
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Own
,
Discovered
,
Spoke
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. Tolkien
May
,
Rebuke
,
Folly
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Safe
,
Worlds
,
Untrue
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Sentence
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Very
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