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«?But that?s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn?t. And if they had, we shouldn?t know, because they?d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end?»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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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.»
«Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.»
«Handsome is as handsome does.»
«Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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At The Gates, corner, gate, New Gate, round, rounder, The New Gate
«He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.»
«It's like things are in the world. Hopes fail. An end comes. We have only a little time to wait now.»
«She should not die, so young and beautiful. At least, she should not die alone.»
«So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending.»
«The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.»
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