It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.


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Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon...
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Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!
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In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
"W...
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And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word...
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I don’t like anything here at all.” said Frodo, “step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and...
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Where there's life there's hope.
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Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That i...
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The ...
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It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange...
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Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm an...
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PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end h...
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Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like...
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Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your home...
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Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. ...
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
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All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
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In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
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The way is shut.
Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not...
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I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard...
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He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
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Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
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Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
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his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
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Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the
story was already writ...
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Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
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Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the ...
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I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind ther...
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It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha...
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The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through ...
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
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There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...
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The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastr...
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If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ...
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal...
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And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of ...
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A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessin...
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Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi...
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Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f...
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Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami...
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Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
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Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b...
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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
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evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une...
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I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family o...
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The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
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For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ...
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Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta!
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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...
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Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
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till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel...
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I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it...
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You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming...
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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pit...
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You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re...
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re...
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...
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This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ...
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a...
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Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no.
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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom...
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We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor...
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...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
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