Tre ringar för älvkonungarnas makt högt i det blå, sju för dvärgarnas furstar i salar av sten, nio för de dödliga, som köttets väg skall gå, en för mörkrets herre i ondskans dunkla sken i Mordorslandets hisnande gruva. En ring att sämja dem, en ring att främja dem, en ring att djupt i mörkrets vida riken tämja dem - i Mordors land, där skuggorna ruva.
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What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
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...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Not all who wander are lost.
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
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Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you?
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
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It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
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Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
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Little by little, one travels far.
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Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, one for the Dark Lord on his dark throne in the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, one Ring to find them, one Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
in the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence
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It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens
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For though I do not ask for aid, we need it.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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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.
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All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
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I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.
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'Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.'
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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.'
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Not all those that wander are lost.
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In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom
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