More quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"Have you thought of an ending?""Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.""Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?""It will do well, if it ever came to that.""Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder."
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"It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."
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"I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way."
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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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"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
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