One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is…

One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters. You did rightly.

Book III, Flotsam and Jetsam

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Many of those trees were my friends creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost for ever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop! - View Quote Details on Many of those trees were my friends creatures I had…
Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves. - View Quote Details on Perilous to us all are the devices of an art…
So that is the King of Rohan. A fine old fellow. Very polite. - View Quote Details on So that is the King of Rohan. A fine old…
I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of strange places, and walk visible under the Sun. - View Quote Details on I have lived to see strange days. Long we have…
We promises, yes I promise!’ said Gollum. ‘I will serve the master of the Precious. Good master, good Sméagol, gollum, gollum! - View Quote Details on We promises, yes I promise!’ said Gollum. ‘I will serve…
No, they never end as tales,’ said Frodo. ‘But the people in them come, and go when their part’s ended. Our part will end later - or sooner. - View Quote Details on No, they never end as tales,’ said Frodo. ‘But the…
For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they would have thought that they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing. - View Quote Details on For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have…
How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
‘As he ever has judged,’ said Aragorn. ‘Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves, and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house. - View Quote Details on How shall a man judge what to do in such…
Often does hatred hurt itself! - View Quote Details on Often does hatred hurt itself!
It had always been a notion of his that the kindness of dear Mr. Frodo was of such a high degree that it must imply a fair measure of blindness. […] Gollum in his own way, and with much more excuse as his acquaintance was much briefer, may have made a similar mistake, confusing kindness and blindness. - View Quote Details on It had always been a notion of his that the…