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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. J. R. R.
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I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish tohave them in the neighborhood, intrudinginto my relatively safe world, in which it was, for instance, possible to read stories in peace of mind, free from fear. But the world thatcontained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril.

 

The New Yale Book of Quotations

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself. J. R. R.

 

The Return of the King
I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you. J. R. R.

 

Spoken by Faramir

I speak no comfort to you, for there is no comfort for such pain within the circles of the world. The uttermost choice is before you: to repent and go to the Havens and bear away into the West the memory of our days together that shall there be evergreen but never more than memory; or else to abide the Doom of Men.

 

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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.' J. R. R.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

 

The Hobbit (1937)

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Nota nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down onor to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

 

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