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“Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.”
“And you, Ring-bearer, she said, turning to Frodo. I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this. She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it, ...”
“Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.”
“When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold;When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to ...”
“My name is growing all the time, and Ive lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as yo...”
“And so Gollum found them hours later, when he returned, crawling and creeping down the path out of the gloom ahead. Sam sat propped against the stone, his head dropping sideways and his breathing h...”
“If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.”
“It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?' 'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have ...”
“Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?""Po-ta-toes!" said Sam.”
“Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths,...”
“Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later or sooner.”
“No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above...”
“Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul crea...”
“Hullo! said Merry. So thats what is bothering you? Now, Pippin my lad, dont forget Gildors sayingthe one Sam used to quote: Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to...”
“And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.”
“But perhaps you could call her perilous because she's so strong in herself. You , you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock, or drown yourself, like a Hobbit in a river, but n...”
“Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of...”
“You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.”
“If we was master, then we could help ourselves.”
“Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself!”
