105 ordspråk av J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien föddes den
3 Januar 1892 och dog den 2 September
1973 - of richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend
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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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I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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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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If a ragnarök would burn all the slums and gas-works, and shabby garages, and long arc-lit suburbs, it could for me burn all the works of art — and I'd go back to trees..
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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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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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In life there can be no victor, for death comes to all and smites them.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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It is a dangerous business going out your front door.
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It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.
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It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.
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It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
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It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
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