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Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.
He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.
All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.
What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.
And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch
We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.
Don't tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them.
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.
deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.
The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest
And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!
For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.
If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?
We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.
I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.
And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.