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“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”
“Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself!”
“Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.”
“Wizards are always troubled about the future.”
“And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.”
“I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White”
“I know. Its all wrong. By rights we shouldnt even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes...”
“I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to”
“There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”
“He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.”
“I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.”
“The king was silent. "Ents!" he said at length. "Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of the trees, I think. I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended ...”
“The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?""So the minstrels say," said omer."Then let us defend it, and hope!”
“Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what...”
“Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course, but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black ...”
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory...”
“There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel.'Not a bird!' said Sam ...”
“Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.”
“Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?""The names o...”
“Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads.”
“A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.”
